Moving Pictures (novel) Quotes

“It was totally confusing, just like real life. (p. 208)”

“A month went by quickly. It didn't want to hang around. (p. 21)”

“Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. (p. 263)”

“The machine whirred on, winding reality from the future to the past. (p. 286)”

“The important thing to remember was that Holy Wood wasn't a real place at all. (p. 179)”

“His brow furrowed, as if he'd just been listening to his own voice and hadn't understood it. (p. 176)”

“Fate doesn't like it when people take up more space than they ought to. Everybody knows that. (p. 178)”

“She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing. (p. 283)”

“Oh, I suppose if you're a powerful merchant it's nice to have a famous wife. It's like owning jewelry. (p. 330)”

“She wasn't certain what the future held, but coffee would be involved if she had any say in the matter. (p. 310)”

“"Why us?" he said. "Why is it happening to us?"
"Everything has to happen to someone," said Ginger. (p. 314)”

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“He had not got where he was today by bothering how things worked. It was how people worked that intrigued him. (p. 282)”

“Victor had never worked for anything in his life. In his experience, jobs were things that happened to other people. (p. 93)”

“At the gate was a large, heavy-set man, who was eyeing the queue with the smug look of minor power-wielders everywhere. (p. 46)”

“The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield. (pp. 10-11)”

“Probably only one person in the world had been interested in whether the old man lived or died, and he'd been the first to know. (p. 91)”

“No-one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged. (pp. 47-48)”

“"Come on," said Gaspode. "It's not right, you being alone in a lady's boodwah."
"I'm not alone," Victor said. "She's with me." (pp. 179-180)”

“The Archchancellor's most important job, as the Bursar saw it, was to sign things, preferably, from the Bursar's point of view, without reading them first. (p. 11)”