32 Quotes by Peter Clines

The Doctor didn’t have superpowers or weapons or anything like that. He was just a really smart guy who always tried to do the right thing. To help people, no matter what. That struck me when I was a kid. The idea that no matter how cold and callous and heartless the world seemed, there was somebody out there who just wanted to make life better. Not better for worlds or countries in some vague way. Just better for people trying to live their lives, even if they didn’t know about him.

I’m never going to find out what the hell was going on with Lost. I mean, was it just sheer coincidence their plane crashed on the island or was it this Jacob guy pulling the strings all along? And how did most of them end up back in the 1970s with the Dharma people?

We’re looking for quantum donuts,” said Mike.

I was the Immortal, the man who couldn’t be killed. A regular Jack Harkness, for those of you who watch BBC America.

Liquid nitrogen,” said Olaf. “Try not to shoot them.” “Really cold?” “Really explosive.

I still don’t know if it’s worth living in a world with no more donuts.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that civilization collapsed right after Spider-Man made a deal with the devil.

I can go physical,” Barry said. “You can go naked and vulnerable,” Freedom said. “Hey, some people like that.

Back when I was in college, I wrote a short story called “The Albuquerque Door” for a junior year creative writing class. It dealt with several of the same ideas in this book, but with a much smaller cast of characters and on a much less talented level. Needless to say, it didn’t go over well with the instructor’s “literary” tastes, and while I didn’t agree with him on a lot of his points, it left me feeling bad enough about the story that I just filed it away.