Tim Powers Quotes

I’m really willing to try to believe you’re not crazy, but you gotta help me a little, you know?

Bradshaw sighed and swallowed, feeling the volatile coldness in his throat and trying to remember what tequila tasted like. Pepper and turpentine, as far as he could recall.

It struck Duffy that a touch of hysteria had sharpened the good fellowship tonight, as if the night wind whistling under the eaves carried some pollen of impermanence, making everyone nostalgic for things they hadn’t yet lost.

God help us," said Crawford softly.
"If there is one." Byron grinned. "A whole lot of ghastly things have turned out to be possible, remember.

“Whats o’clock?”
It wants a quarter to twelve,
And to-morrow’s doomsday.

Your skull in gold will be more valuable than others, being solid all through.

The church has become a more...exclusive club since the founder’s day, it’s clear. No doubt the Devil is more hospitable.

And you've never married."
"I don't know any women well enough to hate 'em that much.

Work out your own damnation," he said breathlessly, "in fear and trembling.

You protect the ones you love. He clung to the thought. Even if they ignorantly resent you for it.

Trusting Merlin is like giving a migrant scorpion a lift inside your hat.

She’s probably only now beginning to be able to think for herself, he thought. And she’ll be hating it. Will she acknowledge the responsibilities that she can now clearly see, or will they be so appalling that she’ll just want to return to the selfless haze?

There's something you should know about me."
"What's that?"
"I don't know, but you should know it.

Cochran recalled that during the French Revolution they had even re-named all the calendar months; the only one he could remember was Thermidor, and he wondered what the others could have been. Fricassee? Jambalaya? Chowder?

Processions of priests and religiosi have been for several days past praying for rain; but the gods are either angry, or nature is too powerful.