John Wray Quotes

#1. Regardless of what he was doing, no matter how candid or innocuous the photo, Haven always looked as though he'd just stopped screaming.

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#2. His crimped hair was subtly frosted, making him look like a preacher in some California church - the kind with acoustic guitars and headset microphones and not much use for the actual Bible.

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#3. Trying to write, or talk - or think - without invoking time is like trying to make pancakes underwater. Time

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#4. Harder still was the pretense her studies demanded: the need to dissemble, to parrot her professors' orthodoxies, to feign interest in theories that were of no use to her.

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#5. If you don't like the place where you find yourself, Waldemar, it pays to remember that you'll be somewhere else in just a moment. The place itself will be a different place.

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#6. Something about Van has always brought late-night nature programming to mind.

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#7. The world is a loony bin [...]. Luckily for us, our front door happens to be one of its exits.

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#8. Only a blind man could have lived through these last years without seeing what was bearing down upon us; so I made myself blind as I could manage. I wanted to believe the worst was behind me, and I found an easy way to make it so. I simply turned my back on what was coming.

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#9. If God had commanded Noah to build an ark for consumer goods instead of animals - and if Noah had been a drunken paranoiac - his ark might have resembled this apartment.

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