“You're being parental', I said. 'Go find that squid'.”
Daryl Gregory“There was as much joy in surrendering free will as exercising it.”
Daryl Gregory, Afterparty“Duty eats free will for breakfast.”
Daryl Gregory, Spoonbenders“I’ve always been a sucker for the beautiful and the batshit.”
Daryl Gregory, Afterparty“The rhythm of breath may have been our first language.”
Daryl Gregory, Afterparty“The problem with getting old was that each day had to compete with the thousands of others gone by. How wonderful would a day have to be to win such a beauty contest? To even make it into the finals? Never mind that memory rigged the game, airbrushed the flaws from its contestants, while the present had to shuffle into the spotlight unaided, all pockmarked with mundanities and baggy with annoyances.”
Daryl Gregory, Spoonbenders“You're being parental', I said. 'Go find that squid'.”
Daryl Gregory, Harrison Squared“The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.”
Daryl Gregory, Harrison Squared“Everything beautiful hurts.”
Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine“For the first time in his life, Stony felt it. It ran like a hot wire, up from his spine, to the base of his skull. His mouth opened on its own.He wanted to bite. He wanted to bite hard.”
Daryl Gregory, Raising Stony Mayhall“Perhaps that's a smile on Delia's face-but Delia's half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, "Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.”
Daryl Gregory, Raising Stony Mayhall