19 Quotes by Kem Nunn

As far as he knew, no one in his family had turned out normal yet and he didn’t see why he should be the first.

He guessed he could see now, in the darkness of this room, with this new place throbbing around him, how going back could be like dying. It was the first time he had seen it that way; and from that angle, the betrayal was somehow not so huge.

But then her stubbornness was connected to her strength, he supposed, and her strength was one of the things about her that he most admired.

It was a little like having religion. The world was a more interesting place if there was more to it than met the eye.

It was how it had been with the madman among the tombs, that their number was legion, far in excess at any rate if the number listed on the back of the door as the room's maximum occupancy.

If someone doesn’t care about himself, you begin to lose interest after a while.

A willingness to go against the conventional wisdom was one of the side effects of looking at the world in a particular light.

That West was long gone, the West of the imagination.

A lifetime of yearning unwound before him like some lost and endless highway.