“But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.” WayHeartMomentsHomeWishBitsSleepCaringShouldersSupposed To BeTonightCheeksHollowWish YouNot CaringWay Home Book:Gravity's Rainbow Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you should happen upon it, your strongest certainty is not that you have discovered it but returned to it. In a single great episode of light, you remember everything.” IfsThinkingWayShouldStoriesLightHappensRememberSpiritualLanguageAgreeObviousCertaintyConsistentMapsStrongestEpisodesGeographyWishful ThinkingRemembers Everything Book:Against the Day Source: Against the Day
“For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry. She could carry the sadness of the moment with her that way forever, see the world refracted through those tears, those specific tears, as if indices as yet unfound varied in important ways from cry to cry.” IfsWorldWayImportantEnoughMomentsSpaceForeverSadnessCryTearsGoes OnDryLensesSeals Book:The Crying of Lot 49 Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“Teamwork," Koteks snarled, "is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.” WayWholeResponsibilityYeahTeamworkSymptomsOne Word Book:The Crying of Lot 49 Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.” IfsWayWantPersonsHappensLinesPicksZeroCoincidenceArbitrarySidewaysShuffle Book:The Crying of Lot 49 Source: The Crying of Lot 49
