Quotes from Tim Pratt

You couldn't ask more of a miracle than it was willing to give.

He would argue that every world and every life was insignificant when considered against the span of the infinite… but nothing mattered against the span of the infinite, so if you wanted to care about anything at all, you had to care about the small things.

Full value for your soul wouldn't get you a cup of coffee at a convenience store.

Ah, college, when you could occasionally get a date through the judicious application of English-major bullshit.

Marla cursed--though her profanities we less destructive than Rondeau's, they were more heartfelt.

Hi there," he said. "I hear you need to see a man about a frog.

Marla had always been better at tearing things apart, at least in a physical level (though she liked to think she was good at building more theoretical things, like the complex structure of loyalty, fear, and obligation that kept things running back home).

The Furies?" Zara said. "The Erinyes? The terrible ones?" At Nikki's look of surprise, Zara rolled her eyes. "I'm an actress, woman, remember? I've read the classics. Christ, I'm starring in motherfucking Medea, in case you hadn't noticed." "Oedipus was the mother-fucking one," the disheveled old lady said, sounding pleased with herself. "Not Medea.

And, most importantly: Thank you, Satan! I couldn't have done it without you.

H. P. Lovecraft wrote that the most merciful thing about the human mind is its inability to correlate all its contents,

Okay then. Let's go save the galaxy.

What is that?" "It's a gazebo." Calred sounded amused. "Why would you want a structure like that? It's completely indefensible." "That's true. I can't think of a single time in history a gazebo withstood a siege.

you think it's great, or at least important, or at least the best you can do, or at least the only thing you can do? You can't paint for the judgment of the future. I