Quotes from Mike Carey

Far as I can see, we mostly exist as *ideas* in each other's heads. The way *you* see me. The way my *boss* sees me. The way the *waitress* at Lindy's sees me.

I will withhold death from you as long as you obey my one command. Bow down to no one. Worship no one. Not even me. Do you understand?

Fortune favors the pure of heart and the brassy of bollock.

The right idea at the right time is like a dandelion...You may hack it down, but you only spread the seeds abroad.

It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said, if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.

You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.

Cara terbaik untuk memangkasnya adalah membiarkannya tumbuh hingga berbuah dan kemudian menghukumnya dengan keras. Ia tidak melihat hal ini sebagai kekejaman, hanya sebagai pengasuhan yang baik, sama seperti memukuli anjing untuk melatihnya tidak memgotori lantai.

I could dodge the kick, but the stable door was already down - and I hadn't even realised it until I saw the splinters.

You're a vampire, Richie. And I've got a gun the size of Nebraska. What's the worst that could happen?

Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls in a battery farm. If you want to keep people from their collective strength, make them too afraid of each other to ever meet or talk.

Truth isn't handed *down*, brother. You beat it out with *hammers* and anneal it in your own *blood*.

But despair and nihilism had been eating into me for years. The more I saw of the sad and futile dead, hovering at the edge of life like beggars at the door of a fancy restaurant, the grimmer and more hopeless the whole universe looked to me. If there was a God, my reasoning went, he was either a psychopath or a fuck-up-nobody you could respect would ever have created a universe where you got one chance to warm your hands at the fire, and then you spent the rest of eternity out in the cold.

At least the smoke would give me a little cover; it was also choking me, making my eyes water and my lungs ache and spasm with each breath, but you can't have everything.

Orang-orang yang lebih kaya akan menjadi lebih kaya, dan orang-orang miskin akan dikatakan mereka lebih kaya tapi akan sangat yakin bahwa mereka tidak kaya.

You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.

It was full of the usual strata of desk-drawer shit, and I could have excavated for five minutes without finding anything more useful than pencil shavings and paper clips.

Some kind of worship of the state, as though the state was somehow different from the schmucks who run it. Can't say I'm keen.

Yang terakhir harus jatuh sebelum yang pertama tahu apa yang terjadi. Cuma itu satu-satunya cara - Zulaika

William Blake is dreaming of Jerusalem under that sod, and Daniel Defoe is probably dreaming about something a fair bit earthier. You've also got John Owen and Isaac Watts, the reservoir dogs of eighteenth-century theology. What can I tell you? I just feel at ease in their company.

I was feeling as though my eyeballs had been scooped out, roughly polished with a sanding wheel, and then shoved back more or less into their right places. My head was full of gray cheese instead of brains.

a pause so heavy it wasn't just pregnant but ready to break its waters and deliver.

Pikirkan 'nihareem' padang pasir, bidadari-bidadari iblis ini membingungkan pelancong yanh letih, membelokannya dari jalannya dengan lampu-lampu terang mereka pada malam hari. Tertipu, mengira dia telah menemukan sebuah kota atau penginapan, pasir yang luas, mati kehausan atau tenggelam dalam pasir hisap - Hakim Mehdad

Dead, blank, empty air surrounded me, like the moment after the fridge stops humming and you think the silence is a new sound.

For every soul there are a million harbors. Those who would have you see the infinite as a coin with but two faces are not your friends.