Quotes from Joshua Valiente
Linsay was a left ear person, Valiente realised. He had seen plenty of them: their eyes glazed slightly and they stared fixedly at your left ear, while their mouths spouted the truth about flying saucers, the great world conspiracy, or one-born-every-minute evangelism. Inside everyone was a left ear person waiting to get out. (LE)
‘Not every action carries symbolic freight.’
‘Every human action does.’ (LE)
‘What you have to realise about madmen is that they’re mad.’ (LE)
And Joshua felt oddly uncomfortable, once more. A slight feeling you get when everything is so right that it might have gone all the way around the universe and come back metamorphosed into wrong. (LE)
… he’d thought a wild surmise was some kind of exotic bird. Well, he was now looking out over new worlds with somewhat of a tame surmise. (LE)
‘Humans start with the world as it is and try and make it different. And that’s what makes them interesting.’ (LE)
His voice was strange, Jackson thought as he tried to size up this man, a voice which laid down words as a poker player laid down card, with finality and decision. He seemed slow rather than fast, but relentless. As hard to stop, once he came rolling at you, as an oncoming tank. (LW)
Fortune, he thought, follows the already fortunate. (LU)
‘Not every action carries symbolic freight.’
‘Every human action does.’ (LE)
‘What you have to realise about madmen is that they’re mad.’ (LE)
And Joshua felt oddly uncomfortable, once more. A slight feeling you get when everything is so right that it might have gone all the way around the universe and come back metamorphosed into wrong. (LE)
… he’d thought a wild surmise was some kind of exotic bird. Well, he was now looking out over new worlds with somewhat of a tame surmise. (LE)
‘Humans start with the world as it is and try and make it different. And that’s what makes them interesting.’ (LE)
His voice was strange, Jackson thought as he tried to size up this man, a voice which laid down words as a poker player laid down card, with finality and decision. He seemed slow rather than fast, but relentless. As hard to stop, once he came rolling at you, as an oncoming tank. (LW)
Fortune, he thought, follows the already fortunate. (LU)
