Tim Powers

“Another howl broke from the tent downstream, this one sounding more like pieces of metal being violined against each other than an…

— Tim Powers

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

— Tim Powers

“The waitress's eyes were wide. "Beat you off?”

— Tim Powers

“Summer lightning made it seem that flickering white-hot wires were turning in the terribly blue sky just above the horizon, and the…

— Tim Powers

I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've…

— Tim Powers

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

— Tim Powers

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

— Tim Powers

“The poem was called “Goblin Market,” and the book whose proof pages were on the desk was titled Goblin Market and Other…

— Tim Powers

“As soon as I get a ship that can take to the open seas, I'm going to find and rescue and -…

— Tim Powers

“Blessed be the soul, and the Lord that keeps it in order; blessed be the day, and the Lord that drives it…

— Tim Powers

“Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. 'May I…

— Tim Powers

“Byron had drawn his pistol, and was looking closely at the leaves and dirt around him, as if he'd dropped something. "It's…

— Tim Powers

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

— Tim Powers

“Jacky, who had read and admired Mary Wollstonecraft, and despised the fashion of fluttery helplessness in women, felt, to her own annoyance,…

— Tim Powers

It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.

— Tim Powers

“Thus Milton refines the question down to a matter of faith," said Coleridge, bringing the lecture to a close, "and a kind…

— Tim Powers

“His heartbeat seemed to be shaking him apart, like the impacts of a wrecking ball on an old building.”

— Tim Powers

“Real life is generally very haphazard in its plotting, and I think a lot of people lament that, and turn to fiction…

— Tim Powers

“Under,” he said in a shaky voice, “normal circumstances, I’d certainly be in love with you.” “Nobody falls in love under normal…

— Tim Powers

“Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a…

— Tim Powers

I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if…

— Tim Powers

The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell…

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“What’s a pandemonium?” whispered one of the men in the rear. “It’s like a calliope,” answered a companion. “I heard one played…

— Tim Powers