Max Gladstone Quotes

Teo had once claimed that human history began with a storm: the interval between lightning and thunder, between flash and rumble felt in the body's core, was primitive man's first experiences of time -- the awakening of consciousness, the birth of the gods.

~ Max Gladstone

You live in a grim universe.”“That’s risk management for you.

~ Max Gladstone

Faith is a state of constant examination and openness. In faith we must be vulnerable. Only in this seeming weakness do we live with God.

~ Max Gladstone

Gods, like men, can die. They just die harder, and smite the earth with their passing.

~ Max Gladstone

They found the Infirmary of Justice much as they had left it: white institutional walls, too-bright floors, and a reassuring smell of antiseptic. Reassuring at least to Tara, because the smell signalled that the people running this infirmary knew about antiseptic.

~ Max Gladstone

Gods, I love sports. All the excitement of real news, only it doesn't matter so you don't have to worry about it.

~ Max Gladstone

Be careful. As if something’s going to jump us in a library.”“You might be surprised.”“What do you mean?”“You know how people say a book is really gripping?”“Don’t tell me…” Cat trailed off.“Libraries can be dangerous.

~ Max Gladstone