Kathryn Davis Quotes

Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.

Think of them like gods, Janice said, because that’s what they are. The nape of a human neck is especially easy to see through – that’s why they love it when we bow our heads. It doesn’t have anything to do with praying. Prayers bore them.

According to the prophecy a child was going to come along that would be part human and part robot and this child was going to change everything. Of course it was way too soon – both sides were totally unprepared, not to mention the fact that they had their parts mixed up. The girls were only interested in romance, and the robots in completing a transaction.

In my lap I had my dear little pug, the smell of whose ears will always be sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Araby and the scent of heliotrope combined.

It isn’t time that folds, it’s space.

Apes or human – we all made the same mistake, tempted by shifting leaves or the smell of sex, by music or a ripe banana.

A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh.

...the beginning and the end of time. These are the same thing, as everybody knows who came into this universe via a wormhole.