26 Quotes by Matt Ruff

I’m sick of belonging to an Order that wants to change the world but can’t even change itself. I’m tired of the bullshit.

But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. ""But you don’t get mad. Not like Pop does.""No, that’s true, I don’t get mad. Not at stories. They do disappoint me sometimes." He looked at the shelves. "Sometimes, they stab me in the heart.

described the Internet as “a series of intestines, laid out by a goatherd’s son, spewing bile at both ends

Well, it all started when I figured out that the janitor at my high school was the Angel of Death…

Then he heard it. Out in the Wood, straight ahead and much closer than before: The beast.

The tea and the cookie were remarkably bland - flavourless, to be honest - but when swallowed, they produced a mild intoxication, a torpor of reason that allowed him to embrace a parley with a dead man as the natural order of things.

Hi," I said. "I'm the last of the Brontë sisters.

Invoking the name of Al Gaddafi cured my blue screen of death

A wanderer in darkness, she followed an eccentric orbit, each new disturbance angling her closer to some long-awaited rendezvous. She could only hope that when the moment came, she’d be wise enough to know it, and brave enough to act.