45 Quotes by Daryl Gregory

I will admit to fucking a zucchini when I was in high school. For years I thought I was a vegesexual.

He could talk at length about the known invasive species, and why there were so many different ones: the weblike filaments choking the trees in New Orleans, the flame-colored poppies erupting on Mexico City rooftops, the green fins popping up in Florida beach sand like sharks coming ashore. Every shell that struck Earth, and some that hit the surface of the water, cracked and sent millions of seeds into the air or into the oceans.

The best aunts aren’t substitute parents, they’re co-conspirators.

The brain is a collective, a huge number of all these thinking modules. It doesn’t make a decision, it arrives at one.

Eight-year-olds playing soccer, Teddy decided, was a lot like a pack of border collies chasing a single sheep, except that the dogs would’ve used more teamwork.

It was like wandering her house, except that everything was bright and blinking and pixelated.

They piled into Irene’s Festiva, a car that won the award for most ironic distance between name and driving experience.

We’re different from other people, she’d said. We only feel at home when we’re a little bit afraid.

Poor bastard. Literally. His mom was broke, and his dad had abandoned the family years ago.