Tim Powers Frases y Citas
Tim Powers: Frases en inglés
“You protect the ones you love. He clung to the thought. Even if they ignorantly resent you for it.”
A Time To Cast Away Stones (p. 126)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)
“Work out your own damnation,” he said breathlessly, “in fear and trembling.”
Fuente: Down and Out in Purgatory (2016), p. 114 (parodying Philippians 2.12) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+2%3A12&version=KJV
“It’s important to feel good about yourself. This morning I met somebody I really like—me.”
Fuente: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 34 (p. 253)
Fuente: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 10 (p. 129)
““There’s something you should know about me.”
“What’s that?”
“I don’t know, but you should know it.””
Fuente: Down and Out in Purgatory (2016), p. 100
“Your skull in gold will be more valuable than others, being solid all through.”
Fuente: Declare (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 345)
“All wrong. The words seemed in this moment to describe Hale’s whole life.”
Fuente: Declare (2001), Chapter 7 (p. 182)
“Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.”
Interlude “Summer, 1818” (p. 170)
The Stress of Her Regard (1989)
Fuente: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 17 (p. 285; quoting from the journal of Edward Williams)
“I’m really willing to try to believe you’re not crazy, but you gotta help me a little, you know?”
Fuente: Last Call (1992), Chapter 37 (p. 374)
The Bible Repairman (p. 2)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)
“Which perspective is true? he thought. Which do I want to be true?”
Fuente: Declare (2001), Chapter 10 (p. 285)
““And you’ve never married.”
“I don’t know any women well enough to hate ’em that much.””
The Hour of Babel (p. 61)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)
“Trusting Merlin is like giving a migrant scorpion a lift inside your hat.”
Fuente: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 14 (p. 183)
“I don’t know—we’d have the Ashtray of Turin.”
Fuente: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 40 (p. 308; ellipsis represents a minor elision of description)
“I’m not a joiner. Any time you work with people, they turn out to be inept clowns.”
Part 1, Chapter 8 (p. 141)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)
“First sensible remark all night,” said Charlotte.
Fuente: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 24 (p. 339)
Castine asked as she followed him around to the front of the Saturn. “I used to live there. I think I still have pictures.”
Fuente: Forced Perspectives (2020), Chapter 13, “Would You Prevent God?” (p. 230)
“Guesses based on guesses are of no value.”
Fuente: Forced Perspectives (2020), Chapter 2, “A Lot of M&Ms and Cigarettes” (p. 43)
“The terrain is the body, the map is the anatomy chart.”
Fuente: Alternate Routes (2018), Chapter 4 (p. 50)
