Scott Hawkins Quotes & Sayings

Buddhism, he thought, is a clean religion. You never heard about how eight people - two of them children - just got blown the fuck up as part of the long-standing conflict between Buddhists and whoever. — Scott Hawkins

Pelapi. It is an old word. There is no single word like it in English. It means 'librarian,' but also 'apprentice,' or perhaps 'student. — Scott Hawkins

That's the risk in working to be a dangerous person," she said. "There's always the chance you'll run into someone who's better at it than you. — Scott Hawkins

Thwarted by technobabble. — Scott Hawkins

Stay away from windows. And if you see people with tentacles, stay away. Don't let them touch you." Harshen — Scott Hawkins

He ended up teaching middleschool art for a living. That was some soothing shit right there. — Scott Hawkins

She knew every word that had ever been spoken, but she could think of nothing to say that might ease his grief. — Scott Hawkins

There might be others," Alicia said. "Some of the ones we don't see much. Q-33 North, maybe?" But she was looking at Nobununga, thoughtful.
"Is he the one with the tentacles?"
"No, that's Barry O'Shea. Q-33 North is the sort of iceberg with legs, remember? Up in Norway?"
"Oh, right. — Scott Hawkins

Sorry - Quoth. It's the language of storms. They're great poets, some of them. — Scott Hawkins

Steve looked through the scope. The house was quiet now. Thin trickles of smoke leaked from the windows. As he watched, Mrs McGillicutty staggered outside. She was bloody and dazed, but very much alive. "Hey, there's the old lady! What's that she's holding?"
Carolyn took the scope and looked for herself, then handed it back. "Muffins. She's got muffins. — Scott Hawkins

She wanted to burn the whole place to ashes but, at the same time, it would be kind of nice to see it again.

Home. — Scott Hawkins

Some people have an enormous capacity for feeling guilt, deserved or otherwise. — Scott Hawkins

So, way I see it, you can either go skip-skip-skippin' down this merry trail she's blazed for you, or you can lay back in the tall grass for a while, see if maybe you can figure out what the fuck is going on." The — Scott Hawkins

Aren't you violating the building codes? Or the laws of physics? — Scott Hawkins

In the Library you took your good times where you could find them. — Scott Hawkins

The only real escape from hell is to conquer it. — Scott Hawkins

Before I move closer towards my vision of the Buddha, I would respectfully plead that you adopt a stance of compassion towards the small things of this world." He — Scott Hawkins

A few moments later Marcus was a member of a fairly exclusive club. He had no idea how many people had been firsthand witnesses to not one but two lion attacks, but he thought that the number would be very, very small. Gangsta, baby, he thought, and wet himself. — Scott Hawkins

For all intents and purposes, the power of the Library is infinite. Tonight we're going to settle who inherits control of reality. — Scott Hawkins

Jennifer, like Father, had something of a fetish for office supplies. A — Scott Hawkins

Erwin gave no fucks. — Scott Hawkins

Steve sighed, wishing for a cigarette. "The Buddha teaches respect for all life." "Oh." She considered this. "Are you a Buddhist?" "No. I'm an asshole. But I keep trying. — Scott Hawkins

How, he wondered, did humanity ever get along without duct tape? — Scott Hawkins

OK, think of it this way. Do you know how microwaves work?"
"No."
"It's based on microwaves."
"Oh, wait. I just remembered. I do know how microwaves work, and what you're saying is bullshit."
"Fine. It isn't microwaves. — Scott Hawkins

Your affection is not meaningless to me, puny one. I shall devour you another day. — Scott Hawkins

Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. — Scott Hawkins

No real thing can be so perfect as memory, and she will need a perfect thing if she is to survive. She will warm herself on the memory of you when there is nothing else, and be sustained." Rubbing — Scott Hawkins

Yo, man," he said. "You got, like, half a dog hanging off your back bumper."

"Do I?"

"Yeah. Did you drive over it? On purpose, like?"

"No. The Buddha teaches respect for all life." Then, under his breath. "I guess I did shoot a couple though. — Scott Hawkins

I was just wondering why you did that. Pretend to be a dipshit, I mean." The president grinned. "Prolly the same fuckin' reason you do. — Scott Hawkins

As illustrated in any number of footnotes, men are almost always 50 to 60 percent dumber in matters involving their crotch. — Scott Hawkins

They were all staring at him now, the way dumb shits sometimes did when you surprised them. — Scott Hawkins

We're still waiting on the lab work."
"It was a shotgun what did it, though. The same one?"
Dorn popped an eyebrow. "Good eye. You in forensics?"
"Not really." He had killed a lot of people with shotguns. — Scott Hawkins

As the days and weeks and seasons wore on he found himself repeating this nothing, not wanting to. Gradually he came to understand that this particular nothing was all that he could really say now. He chanted it to himself in cell blocks and dingy apartments, recited it like a litany, ripped himself to rags against the sharp and ugly poetry of it. It echoed down the grimy hallways and squandered moments of his life, the answer to every question, the lyric of all songs. — Scott Hawkins