The Crow Road Quotes
"We're all young once, Prentice, and those that are lucky get to be old."
"One of the few pleasures that do come your way is to speak your mind."
"Nobody tells you sex is going to be so noisy."
"I have this door in my house... Behind the door I keep... the rest of the Universe."
"I love this here, I don't care if there is a war on... I love this."
"I thought he was going to tell me how he knew; let me in on his secret, but... he never did."
"We'd seen some old burnt-out wreck of a car abandoned in a ditch, up in the hills."
"Phew, she was hot, wasn't I?" she said, and started unbuttoning her blouse.
"I blew on her. Well, she was sweaty, and I could see moisture on the top of her chest."
"Maybe everybody's theories were right, maybe the whole world and every person... were utterly bound up with one another."
"I thought I recognised her. She was short, maybe early forties; curly brown hair and a round, attractive face."
"I still maintain I was seduced, but I suppose I was inquisitive as well."
"The only idea I think she could ever be accused of trying to put into our heads was the welcome realisation that whatever happened to us, she'd be there."
"Fairness is something we made up. It's an idea. The universe isn't fair or unfair; it works by mathematics, physics, chemistry, biochemistry."
"Once the electricity, the chemistry, stops working in your brain, that's it; no more. You're history."
"You can't accept that individually, we're microscopic; here for an eye-blink."
"Feel sorry for yourself because your friend's dead if you want, but don't dignify it with what's supposed to be metaphysical angst; it's also known as superstitious shit."
"And all your nonsenses and truths, your finery and squalid options."
"The universe isn't fair or unfair; it works by mathematics, physics, chemistry, biochemistry."
"Everything's okay, because we're doing the Lord's work. Fuck the silicosis, get down that mine and work, nigger!"
"But the rest is just cells, molecules, atoms. Once the electricity, the chemistry, stops working in your brain, that's it; no more. You're history."
"All the gods are false, I thought to myself, and smiled without pleasure."
"Death was change; it led to new chances, new vacancies, new niches and opportunities; it was not all loss."
"We continue in our children, and in our works and in the memories of others; we continue in our dust and ash."
"The belief that we somehow moved on to something else was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constipatory, too."
"It was spherical, or nearly spherical, and probably pretty well exactly nine centimetres in diameter."
"The belief that we somehow moved on to something else might be a tribute to our evolutionary tenacity and our animal thirst for life, but not to our wisdom."
"We are made from bits of stars! We are made from bits of stars!"
"To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constipatory, too."
"It's just you and me; I never thought this was going to happen."
"Meant every letter; every word. With all my heart."