Tim Powers

"Love isn’t in the category of normal things. Not any worthwhile kind of love, anyway."

"“I got to missing her, the way things used to be here, the past. The past,” she repeated. “It’s always out there, isn’t it? I hate now. I hate that whenever you look at a clock, it shows a different t…"

"Processions of priests and religiosi have been for several days past praying for rain; but the gods are either angry, or nature is too powerful."

"You protect the ones you love. He clung to the thought. Even if they ignorantly resent you for it."

"He was dizzy, and it occurred to him that Newton must have been right when he’d said that light consisted of particles, for today he could feel them hitting him."

"She’s probably only now beginning to be able to think for herself, he thought. And she’ll be hating it. Will she acknowledge the responsibilities that she can now clearly see, or will they be so appal…"

"The church has become a more...exclusive club since the founder’s day, it’s clear. No doubt the Devil is more hospitable."

"By the dim yellow glow of the overhead bulb, Lepidopt stared at the bomb and the time machine, and he tried to imagine what might go wrong."