“They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.”
“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
“Qhuinn dived into the plane, pulled himself into the pilot’s seat, and tried to make sense of all the…fucking hell, there were a lot of dials. The only saving grace he had was that he’d—Rat-tat-tat-tat!—watched enough movies to know that the lever with the grip was the gas and the bow tie–shaped wheel was the thing you pulled up to go up, and pushed down to go down.“Fuck,” he muttered as he stayed in a tuck position as much as he could.”
“The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.”
“Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.”
“When the stakes are high, bow down low.”