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Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can. — Jennifer Egan

Isn't that what the Peerless is for? Anything too difficult for the home world? — Greg Egan

Hindsight creates the illusion that your life has led you inevitably to the present moment. — Jennifer Egan

But a story was invisible, infinite, it had no size or shape. Information. It could fill the world or fit inside a fingernail. — Jennifer Egan

The monkey's face had more emotions than a human's: curiosity, pity, exhaustion, like he'd already seen too much. Danny had to look away. — Jennifer Egan

Evolution was a random walk across a minefield, not a pre-ordained trajectory, onward and upward toward perfection. — Greg Egan

Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone? — Jennifer Egan

We're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are. — Jennifer Egan

There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs. — Greg Egan

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you. — Jennifer Egan

I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me. — Greg Egan

And the feeling I had was not of wanting her so much as being surrounded by her, blundering inside her life without having moved. — Jennifer Egan

Enemies always attend each other's funerals. I guess it is a way of knowing they won... — M.C.V. Egan

A matter of pragmatism; chemically knocking someone senseless is usually quieter, less messy and less risky to the assailant than killing them. — Greg Egan

'Home And Away' was my first big break. I was already a fan of the show, so to suddenly be on it was really good. — Christopher Egan

It was still the pre-eminent social networking site for the 0-3 age group — Greg Egan

Let me understand you. Let me piece you together, hold you together. Let me help you to explain yourself. — Greg Egan

That's all I am, now. That's all that defines me. So when they're happy, they'll be me. — Greg Egan

It was like listening to two badly written computer programs trying to convince each other that they were sentient. — Greg Egan

As much as I like my sister-in-law, I didn't want her two cents. This was a conversation for siblings, with in-laws as invested observers. — Elisabeth Egan

I've been taking longer to write stories lately. — Greg Egan

I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't. — Greg Egan

This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends. — Doris Egan

Who exactly am I saving from shame, when I'll live and die in every possible way? — Greg Egan

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question. — Jennifer Egan

My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth. — Elisabeth Egan

STEPHEN O'CONNOR Next to Nothing — Jennifer Egan

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing. — Jennifer Egan

Often when she thought she was reading his body — Greg Egan

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan. — Greg Egan

No one objects to the notion that every technological civilisation might undergo its own Introdus. — Greg Egan

And it's all kind of moving and sweet except that you're not completely there - a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking, — Jennifer Egan

He was a bridger. He created you to touch other cultures. He wanted you to reach as far as you could. — Greg Egan

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated. — Greg Egan

I sensed immediately that he'd once been overweight. He moved with a fat person's tiptoey apology. — Jennifer Egan

It is technically impossible for a man to look better in a Speedo than in swim trunks. — Jennifer Egan

Eyebrows have never inflicted a moment of pain on me. — Jennifer Egan

And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished. — Jennifer Egan

This vision tumbled over Phoebe with the force of revelation: she would stand somewhere and look back, she would live a life. — Jennifer Egan

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age. — Jennifer Egan

A swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff — Jennifer Egan

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for. — Jennifer Egan

one cubic foot of tidepool can support more than four thousand living things. — Timothy Egan

There's nothing worse than a label to cement people's loyalties. — Greg Egan

See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine. — Jennifer Egan

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet. — Jennifer Egan

I said, 'The truth is whatever you can get away with.' 'No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape. — Greg Egan

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. — Jennifer Egan

That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to. — Jennifer Egan

When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened? — Jennifer Egan

A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe. — Timothy Egan

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like. — Jennifer Egan

It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads? — Jennifer Egan

Hebrew Confederate Cemetery on Shockoe Hill, which is the only Jewish military cemetery in the world outside the state of Israel. The — Maureen Egan

Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club. — Greg Egan

...water laughing softly down a black stone wall. — Jennifer Egan

The Pacific Northwest is simply this: wherever the salmon can get to. Rivers without salmon have lost the life source of the area. — Timothy Egan

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?"
"That depends."
"On what?"
"On how I want to feel. — Greg Egan

He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints. — Jennifer Egan

Time's a goon right? Isn't that the expression? — Jennifer Egan

I think people are surprised to learn that I'm pretty goofy and pretty funny. — Susan Egan

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out. — Timothy Egan

You can do it alone. But it's going to be so much harder. — Jennifer Egan

The river runs wide and passive in sunlit stretches, then fast and bawdy with whitewater rapids. — Jennifer Egan

That we have some history together that hasn't happened yet. — Jennifer Egan

He sensed between them an understanding too deep to articulate: the unspeakable knowledge that everything is lost. — Jennifer Egan

I turn to contemporary fiction seeking a shared awareness with the writer of the cultural moment we both occupy, its peculiar challenges. — Jennifer Egan

...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood. — Jennifer Egan

I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real? — Jennifer Egan

Most people don't think of Los Angeles as a theatre town, and that you have to go to New York to be in theatre, and it's really not true. — Susan Egan

The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions. We'd — Greg Egan

Her face was fragile and mischievous, pale enough to absorb hues from the world around her-purple, green, pink-like a face painted by Lucian Freud. — Jennifer Egan

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway. — Greg Egan

What am I? The data? The process that generates it? The relationships between the numbers? — Greg Egan

Treat everybody the same way you want to be treated — Kian Egan

With an earnestness that would be laughable in a person who wasn't from Wisconsin. — Jennifer Egan

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life. — Jennifer Egan

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don't listen to them - listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen. — Jennifer Egan

CRAIG DAVIDSON Medium Tough — Jennifer Egan

So this is it what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty. — Jennifer Egan

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped. — Greg Egan

The reason there was no name for such distant relatives was because sane people would have no interest in distinguishing them from anyone else. "Once — Greg Egan

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do. — Jennifer Egan

Reach isn't describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it's simultaneous. — Jennifer Egan

My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it. — Susan Egan

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance. — Jennifer Egan

We learn precisely enough to keep us from wanting to know any more — Greg Egan

There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing. — Jennifer Egan

Sealth died in 1866, one year after the city which bore his name passed an ordinance to ban Indians from town. — Timothy Egan

When you're a kid, you think you're going to have this deep well of time with your parents when you grow up and you're all on equal footing. — Elisabeth Egan

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it. — Jennifer Egan

A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust? — Jennifer Egan

She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life. — Jennifer Egan

They were snobs or idiots or both ... yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness. — Jennifer Egan

Noreen didn't speak, and as the minutes passed she seemed to fade into the rummaging breeze and chatter of insects, as if the night itself were alive. — Jennifer Egan

The sound of the wind against the sides of the house is exactly like the sound of wolf fur against cardboard. — Jennifer Egan

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people. — Doris Egan

All her excitement had seeped away, leaving behind a terrible sadness, an emptiness that felt violent, as if she'd been gouged. — Jennifer Egan

I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am. — Jennifer Egan

I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain. — Jennifer Egan