Gene Wolfe Reference Quotes & Sayings

If anyone's delusional about how love works, what real love feels like, it's the majority of the adult population. — J.A. Redmerski

Thank luck and DNA. — John Green

Thorne shuffled his feet. "You know, if it was a bad kiss, you can just say so."
She stiffened. "That's not at all what I ... Wait. Did you think it was a bad kiss?"
"No," he said, with an abrupt, clumsy laugh. "I thought it was ... um." He cleared his throat. "But there were clearly a lot of expectations, and a lot of pressure, and ... " He squirmed in the chair. "We were going to die, you know."
"I know." She squeezed her knees into her chest. "And, no, it wasn't ... I didn't think it was a bad kiss."
"Oh, thank the stars. — Marissa Meyer

Master Palaemon's hand, dry and wrinkled as a mummy's, groped until it found mine. "Among the initiates of religion it is said, 'You are an epopt always.' The reference is not only to knowledge but to their chrism, whose mark, being invisible, is ineradicable. You know our chrism."
I nodded again.
"Less even than theirs can it be washed away. Should you leave now, men will only say, 'He was nurtured by the torturers.' But when you have been anointed they will say, 'He is a torturer.' You may follow the plow or the drum, but still you will hear, 'He is a torturer.' Do you understand that? — Gene Wolfe

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes. — Barry Watson

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter. — Gelett Burgess

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve. — Brennan Manning

Where there is no hope, we must invent it. — Albert Camus

The Whorl, whose inhabitants keep watch for an outsider — Kim Stanley Robinson