The Raw Shark Texts Quotes
"This is how my life started, my second life."
"The beautiful, heavenly, angel-singing fact – I could breathe and that meant I would live."
"It was a cloudy day, grey and edgeless. I felt edgeless too."
"I did not know who I was. I did not know where I was. That simple. That frightening."
"These things are rarely black and white, Eric, but even so, I have to tell you –"
"In the deep dark, in the thousand-fathom black waters of ancestral memory and instinctive unconscious, something moves."
"My heart was deep space and my head was maths."
"I imagine you have a lot of questions, Eric."
"We can never wake up in the same place we went to sleep in."
"I opened my eyes. I was in the living room, lying on the sofa. The phone was ringing."
"I’m sorry if I’m putting this too bluntly."
"I’m afraid that in time you will see for yourself that what I am telling you is the truth."
"I’m telling you everything I know before it’s all lost for good."
"I’ve killed myself so slowly it’s taken years and I don’t really even know why."
"A man lives so many different lengths of time."
"Sometimes you have to do a lot of work to arrive at stability."
"I hope you can follow them, I am doing all I can."
"I don’t want to die. I’m scared of dying but even more I don’t want to not be."
"I’m sorry for the format. Today is a bad day. All my structure is gone."
"Much of what I learned, this little box of tricks and tactics I’m leaving behind for you."
"I’m going to look for Dr Trey Fidorous."
"Computers. The blessing and the curse of the twenty-first century."
"These blessing and curse things, they’re everywhere. You can lose count."
"Scientific study? How is that possible?"
"My employer has the tongue-twisting pleasure of being a crypto-con-ceptual oceanologist."
"The Ludovician is the largest and most aggressive of all the conceptual sharks."
"My uncle was a taxi-driver. If you want to be a taxi-driver in London you have to take an exam to prove you know the entire city."
"Geniuses don’t go mad... They go out over such depths, and some of them get taken."
"Conference calls. The curse of the twenty-first century."
"It’s like Dawn of the Dead or something, isn’t it?"
"If you want your boomerang to come back, first you’ve got to throw it."
"Places get a bit holy when they’re left on their own to think for a while."
"Toasting bread on an open fire. It sounds like the easiest thing in the world, doesn’t it?"
"You don’t meet many girls, do you, Eric?"
"History sinks downwards, like a dinosaur in a tar pit."
"Yippy yippy ya ya yey yey yey. I had to crucify somebody today."
"A part of me, a small stolen part, is a tiny part of him."
"The me sitting here in front of you now and doing a really good job of fucking all this up, I’m a person just like you are."
"I suppose all this will be something of a shock to you?"
"I think we’re going to wear away from the world, just like the writing wears off old gravestones in the aisles of churches."
"You should know that when a girl takes her clothes off in front of a guy, it usually means something."
"It’s a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards."
"We’re all going forwards and we’re never coming back."
"All this time you’ve just been using me to get what you wanted."
"I’m not proud of it, sometimes I hate myself for it if you really want the truth."
"We’re stuck together anyway, aren’t we?"
"I did lie to you. Yes, I did manipulate you. Yes, I did use you."
"I stopped on this last key and, trying not to think too hard about the logic of any of it, slid it into the lock in front of me."
"The room smelled like my house. It smelled of me."
"This is the First Eric Sanderson’s room."
"Be absolutely sure, then check again, and then check again."
"Safety and caution always. Better safe than sorry."
"I’ve found you, I thought, I’ve found you again."
"It isn’t just the past we remember, it’s the future too."
"Only the knife edge of the present is ‘hard’ to any degree."
"Past and future are things of the mind, and a mind can be changed."
"I think I believed I could change what happened, undo it, prevent it, save her life somehow after she was already gone."
"Sometimes when I think I can’t sleep, I actually am part-way asleep."
"I needed answers. That’s why I couldn’t sleep."
"Life’s much too uncertain to leave important things unsaid."
"That is not a woman, sir. It’s a painting."
"We’re building the woman, not the painting."
"What you have to remember is this whole boat is made from a single powerful non-divergent conceptual loop."
"The Ludovician shark is a living animal, an animal has its own nature and there’s no way to change that."
"A shark is always a shark, whatever you choose to believe."
"For memories to survive inside a Ludovician would be like a mouse surviving inside a cat."
"The sun shone down hot. My skin smelled tangy and the deck smelled of last summer’s seaweed and salt."
"But that wasn’t real food, was it? Just the idea of food. But what I’m wondering is, if the idea of food tastes like food and feels like food when you eat it, where does that put us?"
"Wet down the reel. That bucket there, tip some water on the line or it’s going to overheat."
"Look – high-grade heavy duty cable and it’s sliced right through. Some sort of Remora?"
"The truth is a complex mechanism, Scout, especially in this place, and I don’t have the time or the inclination to sit down and explain its workings to you."
"All I think about is how happy we were there, in that place, in our tent, on that beach. It breaks my heart and I want those photos back, Clee. I want them back so much."
"You didn’t do anything wrong," she said. "Sometimes things go bad and there’s nothing anybody can do about it. None of what happened was your fault, Eric. I don’t blame you for it, do you understand? I don’t blame you. It was an accident."