Цитаты из книги «Король Волшебников», страница 4

- Gods. I want to find out more about them.

- That's insane. There's no such thing as gods. Or God. You know, Pouncy, one of the things I love about the fact that I didn't go to college is that I didn't have to sit around a freshmen dorm getting high and arguing about shit like that.

-Why do you always try to ruin everything?

-I'm not ruining it. I just want to understand it.

-If you had faith you wouldn't have to understand.

He'd been free his whole life, if only he'd known it.

Supposedly Thames dragon wrote mostly of Pink Floyd stuff. At least after Syd Barett left.

She was into the real world. She was into fieldwork. Specifically she was into dragons. Quentin supposed it was an extension of the general Australian preoccupation with fatally dangerous animals. Start with saltwater crocodiles and box jellyfish and it was just a hop, skip, and a jump up the food chain before you got to dragons.

Кое-что иногда можно исправить даже долгое время спустя.

Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradictory code, pathetically unoptimized.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn’t doing it.

Technically the process is called ascension, or sometimes assumption, or my favorite word for it is translation. They all mean the same thing: the process by which a human being is brought bodily into heaven, without dying, and accorded some measure of divine status.

Becoming invisible was a simple idea in theory, but in practice it was a lot harder than you’d think. It had been done, but it took years of meticulous self-erasure, and once accomplished it was practically impossible to undo; apart from anything else you could never be sure you’d reinstated your visible self completely accurately.