Blue Ant trilogy Quotes
Thriller novels, Satire books, William Gibson books
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“There were ghosts in the Civil War trees, past Philadelphia.”
“The door opened inward, revealing a football player with an Eighties porn haircut.”
“Shorts, she thinks, drawing abreast of this trio, are somehow always wrong in London.”
“"Life is more difficult for the serious artist," allows Voytek, "Time is money, but also money is money."”
“"You follow the footage." His eyes narrowing…
Damien maintains, half−seriously, that followers of the footage comprise the first true freemasonry of the new century.”
“"I'm going to level with you. I'm away for a while. But there's no cash on the premises, no drugs, and the pit bull's tested positive. Twice."
She doesn't leave a message.”
“Milgrim knew almost nothing about Fiona's mother, other than that she’d once been involved with Bigend, but he’d always found the idea of girlfriends having parents intimidating.”
“Nothing at all in the German fridge, so new that its interior smells only of cold and long-chain monomers.”
“There is that mirror−world ingestion of archaic substances, she thinks: People smoke, and drink as though it were good for you, and seem to still be in some sort of honeymoon phase with cocaine.”
“The old man was as American as it got, but in what she thought of as some very recently archaic way. Someone who would’ve been in charge of something, in America, when grown-ups still ran things.”
““Was that a twelve-step program you were in, in Basel?” asked Sleight.
“I don’t think so,” said Milgrim, assuming Sleight was referring to the number of times his blood had been changed.”
“"You care passionately about this thing…That is what makes you so valuable. That and your talents, your allergies, your tame pathologies, the things that make you a secret legend in the world of marketing."”
“Inchmale hailed a cab for her, the kind that had always been black, when she’d first known this city.
“Their money’s heavy,” he said, dropping a loose warm mass of pound coins into her hand. “Buys many whores.””
““Know what? The salt of the fucking earth never tells you it’s the salt of the fucking earth. People who get scammed, they’re all people who don’t know that.””
““Why did you take my picture?” Milgrim asked, unexpectedly bypassing his robot voice and sounding like a completely different person, the one you automatically and immediately arrest.
“I’m obsessive,” Whitaker said.
Milgrim blinked, shuddered.”
“Milgrim looked up from the plate, both elements of his oddly fragmented self seeming for the first time to see her simultaneously. “Why don’t you sing?”
“Because I don’t sing,” Hollis said.
“But you were famous. You must have been. There was a poster.””
“And then she hears the sound of a helicopter, from somewhere behind her and, turning, sees the long white beam of light sweeping the dead ground as it comes, like a lighthouse gone mad from loneliness, and searching that barren ground as foolishly, as randomly, as any grieving heart ever has.”