Cauterizing Nerves Quotes

#1. His eyes looked at my body as if it were a drink of water on a desert dune.
"I don't know much," I confessed, my voice barely audible.
"Don't worry. I know a lot.

Charlaine Harris

#2. As if thought were not our most passionate, our most ardent aspect.

Carole Maso

#3. This is needle-in-haystack shit. And the haystack is made of needles. On a needle planet.

Larissa Ione

#4. We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.

Frederick Lenz

#5. I think, apart from Sir Garfield Sobers nobody else has played 20 years in international cricket and 20 years playing at the very highest level and to the very highest standard is an achievement beyond compare.

Sunil Gavaskar

#6. The power of the witch is in her hair. The ones who killed her knew this. They cut off her long tresses, tied them into devil's shoelaces, and bound her hands and feet.

A.A. Attanasio

#7. There was another intelligence out there, close enough to touch. And even if they were now gone, then the mere existence of their handiwork was wonder enough to fundamentally change humanity's view of the universe.

Alastair Reynolds

#8. Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.

Joshua Cohen