Quotes About Ian McDonald

Was he some test from the Ministry of Pain? Some awful assessment, and if so, had she passed or failed?

In the end he sleeps because waiting is a dull, sick ache, like a tinnitus of the soul.

Only one man was not surprised. He was not surprised because he had no concept of normality that the events in Neu Ulmsbad Square could violate.

Courtney Hall, cartoonist by disappointment, sat phantom-white where reflex and shock had thrown her against the far wall.

Citizen Grissom Bunt of the yulp caste, in the name of the Compassionate Society you are under arrest for a Category Twelve PainCrime and LifeRight Violation;

This piece of Performance Art entitled 'The Elector Passes' has been brought to you by the members of the Raging Apostles

He remembered questions swarming like flocks of birds, voices filled with consternation, some soft, some sibilant, some somber, some shrill. He remembered that all the questions had been directed at him and that he had answered each and every questioning voice. But he did not know what he had answered. —You will forget, was his final memory. There his history ended, without a future, without a name.

Y al final se queda dormido porque la espera es un dolor sordo y continuo, como un acúfeno del alma.