The Anomaly Quotes
"Wow. You’re prepared to go there? That way lies ‘the tribes weren’t the first people in North America, so they should stop whining about their land rights.’ You really want a piece of that? You’re braver than I thought."
"Look, screw this. You said you wanted to do a genuine piece of journalism about the show. This kind of bullshit isn’t how you deal with a fellow professional."
"You’re a cut-and-paste merchant who qualifies every assertion with ‘Could it possibly be that…’ or ‘This has led some to wonder if…,’ so in the end you never actually say anything."
"Because none of those things are true of me."
"It is, however, characteristic of the human mind that custom will stale life’s infinite variety."
"If a hike takes longer than, say, forty minutes, there’s an argument you should have parked closer to your destination."
"The truth is for teenagers and hippies. We’re too old and ugly for that crap."
"Once you’re in possession of a fact, you’re done. Case closed. Mind closed, too. Unresolvable mysteries expand the mind."
"Our species didn’t suddenly start being smart a hundred years ago."
"What matters most, what empowers us to grow and develop not just as individuals but as a culture, is never the finding of things. The finding isn’t important. It’s that…we continue to seek."
"Nobody gets through life without being an asshole," I said. "Once in a while you’re going to dig in over something and get it wrong and make a scratch on the world you’ll never polish off. Those scratches will define you more than anything else."
"It’s not like I’d disproved the existence of aliens or shown that the Knights Templar were only ever a Little League team."
"We need more. Someone or something bigger than us. A magical other."
"He listened, and nodded, and said, ‘Okay, if that’s how you feel.’ He told me that he loved me and to have a good day, and I flounced into school aflame with self-righteous ire."
"It’s never the world at large you want to prove yourself to. It’s someone in particular. Doesn’t matter how old you get, you’re still hoping for Mom or Dad to kiss you on the head."
"Yes," she said. "But I have been known to change my mind. Grown-ups do. You’ll learn that one day."
"You’ll see Ken pointing the light around all over this place, trying to get you a look at each bit of the walls on either side. In typically chaotic fashion."
"So does that answer your question? Including the unspoken one about why I always want facts, not made-up shit?"
"It was an accident. I was busy saving mine. You received collateral salvation."
"I can’t keep up with you. Last night you thought maybe I wasn’t, now we’re back to it being a done deal."
"But Kincaid and the bloke from the Smithsonian already stomped all over it a hundred years ago."
"It’s somewhat illegal to enter a cave in the Grand Canyon without permission."
"The science fanboys of the Internet will crucify us."
"In the movies, most of the time it turns out to be a curse that raises an ancient demon or something, and to be honest that’s kind of the last thing we need right now."
"Egypt was big in popular culture back then, and they leaped to conclusions."
"No longer shall I use the expression ‘a duck out of water.’ Going forward, I shall think of ‘a Ken in water.’"
"Fair enough, mate. Much as I have abandoned use of the term ‘wanker,’ because I’ve found saying ‘a total Nolan’ does the same job."
"Dylan wouldn’t just have bugged out, would he?"
"You met the guy, Moll. He has a great big ego, and with that comes pride. He’s not just going to bail."
"Human beings are very basic cakes. We just have a lot of fancy icing on top."
"And that’s what therapy boils down to in the end, right?"
"Learning that there’s always something going on that you don’t know about. And that people will lie to you, even if they love you. And that nobody can be trusted, no matter how much you love them."
"We live among fossils and rock paintings and ancient signs, wherever we are."
"Easy, Nolan," Ken said. "I took a deep breath. I hadn’t even realized how I was sounding. 'Okay, yeah. Sorry.'"
"No, seriously, Moll. Nobody else knows this place even exists. What the hell are you suggesting?"
"Everything was cool. Nobody was starting to panic. Not a bit."
"I almost never eat before lunchtime, so I won’t miss it. Save it for later."
"When you’re in a bad situation there’s always part of your mind that carries blithely on, assuming you merely haven’t thought of The Thing yet—that there’s some obvious solution you simply haven’t fallen upon."
"If you’re patient, one step at a time will take you as far as you need to go."
"All we have to do is keep our shit together until it happens. It will not be easy and it will not be fun, but we will do it."
"This is the place and point and time from which the rest of our lives start. There is a path from here. And so we need to move along it."
"I adapt fast. If a ceiling light goes out, then within a day or two I live in a world where there was never a lightbulb there in the first place, to the utter exasperation of the few people who’ve tried to live with me."
"It’s no harder, for the body anyway. But for the brain…that’s different. The panicking, consequence-aware mind will interfere with the body’s innate ability to balance."
"The human mind is fiercely protective of what it believes to be true about the world, especially if those beliefs are unspoken or taken for granted at a deep level."
"Your soul knows. Your soul most likely had an inkling long before the events you’re struggling to comprehend had even occurred, sensitive as it is to currents and changes too subtle for the conscious mind to observe."
"It’s uncertainty that’ll kill you, not hope like everyone says."
"One of the advantages of being a smoker is you are never in doubt as to the most appropriate response to any circumstance."
"The bad thing was the lies. A small lie is just as much a lie as a big one."
"We’re dead when we’re dead, Nolan, and not before."
"Logic is never the issue and there is no court of appeal."
"I’m kind of dumb sometimes and notoriously slow on the uptake, but I generally get there in the end."
"This morning seemed like a long time ago. It was back when Gemma was alive."
"And maybe… Maybe that’s the way it had actually been."
"The body—especially when its most basic needs are not being met, and it is becoming desperate—has a way of closing the shutters, conserving energy when it can."
"Because, love, sooner or later something that’s come out of this pool is going to get hungry. We’ve got enough to deal with already. Stopping it getting worse is all we’ve got."
"I knew that a large factor in why we were even trying this was to avoid thinking about her death."
"You could choose therefore to believe we were on the brink of fulfilling the prophecy, waiting only for that blue star/meteor/spaceship to push us over."
"You only if-only, as Ken would have said, when you’re already screwed."
"The past is full of if-onlys and they’re all bullshit."
"Sometimes you need to let the spastic energy out, let the panic fly."
"We don’t care about any of this. We just want to stay alive."
"Humans are the fuckup, the thing that got mangled and messed up."
"You tie up loose ends. You tie them up hard."
"I know my place. My job is not to reason why."
"The regrets kept coming in waves, deeper each time."
"It’s how we start again. How we reboot that big fuckup out there."
"Nothing I can say to change your mind? Or offer you? Nothing at all?"
"The monster had finally come for her in the dark, and she knew she wasn’t going to escape this time."
"It’s always the wave you don’t see coming that will knock you down."
"The edges of my vision were folding in now as shadows came flooding into my mind."
"Sometimes failure is what happens next. What happens last."
"You don’t notice the toll life’s taking while it’s happening. Only when it stops."
"It’s the things that don’t make sense that reveal who you are inside."
"Damage done to the site has more than likely rendered it nonfunctional. Congratulations, Mr. Moore. You managed to break the most important thing ever found."
"To unleash them without the others would be planetary suicide."