Idoru Quotes
"It’s a light that blows in under the door, like powder. Fine, so fine."
"Nobody’s really famous anymore, Laney. Have you noticed that?"
"I mean difficult to quote effectively in a memo. Or a court of law."
"We’re the media, Laney. We make these assholes celebrities."
"It’s covered with eyes and it sweats constantly."
"She complained, always, that the nature of celebrity was much the worse for wear."
"We learned to print money off this stuff. Coin of our realm. Now we’ve printed too much; even the audience knows."
"He could get off pretending she’s a waitress or something."
"It's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us."
"Everyone has a card here. It's like not having socks."
"When the Lo/Rez machine decides to throw money at a problem, money will be thrown."
"During that time, you participated in a number of drug trials? You were an experimental subject?"
"Accreted patchwork of shallow random balconies, thousands of small windows throwing back blank silver rectangles of fog."
"Desiring machines, aggregates of subjective desire."
"Fractal filth, bit-rot, the corridor of their passage tented with crazy swoops of faintly flickering lines."
"That physical thing. Too much time in the virtual, we forget that, don't we?"
"There's lots of ways to make sex ugly, but it's kind of hard to make it look this ridiculous."
"Sometimes I bring stuff back for Eddie. Party favors for the club. It’s illegal, but it’s not all that illegal, you know?"
"That’s what scares me, that stuff. Like it's alive."
"Popular culture is the testbed of our futurity."
"We are employed by a Lo/Rez shell corporation."
"Rez and Rei Toei are in almost constant contact now."
"The quantity of data accumulated here by the band’s fans was much greater than everything the band themselves had ever generated."
"We mean no harm, and he believes that in the end only good can come from our union."
"Rei says you’ve been totally central to everything, and that we have a great deal to thank you for."
"Public works project...exclusive mega-mall, affluent gated suburbs, plus world-class pharmaceutical manufakura."
"This nanotech being heavily proscribed, is serious problem."
"It’s move fast, stay together, Rez in the center, and into the van. On my count of three."
"Who put out the word that Rez was dead, Blackwell? The idoru?"
"I don’t know, but she seems to like to do things. And they aren’t necessarily that easy to understand."
"Legal’s flying in from London and New York for talks with Starkov and his people."
"My job’s done. It didn’t work out the way you wanted it to, but I did it."
"It’s just that that way’s better all ’round."
"The official truth of the night’s events is currently being formulated."
"I have to remember where I’d be if he hadn’t come behind the walls at Pentridge to give that solo concert."
"You didn’t say that. Now don’t say it again."
"I will explain certain things to her. Nothing complicated. Simple, simple protocols of cause and effect."
"It’s one-on-one time for your Kathy and I, and it may well prove to be as intimate, and I may hope enlightening, as any she ever had."
"I will leave your Kathy with the deepest possible conviction that if she crosses me, she will die."
"And she will never allow Slitscan to run that footage of your doppelgänger."
"DAY MANAGER GAVE ME MY WALKING PAPERS. "FRATERNIZING.""
"She remembered how much television her mother had watched, after her father had left."
"And it was something like that that worried her now when she thought of Rez coming to see her."
"Because now she knew there were rooms they never saw, or even dreamed of, where crazy things, or even just boring things, happened, and that was where the stars came from."
"I know. You never finished telling me the story of the Sandbenders."
"Most mornings, now, she checks into the City, hears the gossip in a favorite barbershop in Sai Shing Road."
"The idoru said that that was where they wanted to live, now that they were married. So they were going to do it."
"And if they do, Chia thought, hearing the hiss of the Espressomatic, I’ll go there."