Michael Marshall Smith Quotes

I said this was his story. I didn’t say I believed it. I don’t. You shouldn’t either. That would be best.

Everything you've done, everything you've seen, everything you've become, remains. You never can go back, only forward, and if you don't bring the whole of yourself with you, you'll never see the sun...

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You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need you too. You eat well because the intensity of taste reminds you of a need satisfied, a pain relieve...

One of life’s dreariest truths, my dear, is that something once wonderful can come to seem … ordinary.

Almost every story in the world has a back door through which the Devil can enter if he so chooses.

There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the chance to struggle some more.

I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and there, checking everything is in order and putting a part of m...

If a door isn’t there then you can’t hope to go through it, but if it’s there but always locked, then you’re trapped. Someone is keeping the door shut.

Welcome to adulthood. Please leave your dreams at the door.

I cannot remember when I became exhausted instead of merely tired.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself

Storyboarded by the West Coast’s finest, the ceiling celebrated the exploits of that most durable of action heroes—God.

Being me is not a fate everyone would enjoy. There are risks, and frequent disappointments. I'm not all that keen on the arrangement myself, to be honest.

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And so later Hannah was back at the kitchen table in her house. Sitting where she’d sat earlier. Her place. Hannah didn’t know that humankind has a deep-set belief in the idea that we create and maint...

I caught one last glimpse of her face, howling something at me.There were too many vowels in what she said, and they were in an unkind order. (Substitutions)

I realised suddenly that I was thirty-four and not making a very good job of it.

I shut my eyes, turned away for a moment, and it came: a shiver of finality like the one when you decide, in your own mind, that you’re going to have to tell someone who loves you that you don’t want...

What they are is a small tablet about six inches square, which has a screen in it. As you walk it shows a scrolling digital map of the area you’re in, telling you what each store you pass sells, who l...

Never ask questions if you might not want to know the answers, lest you are pulled into those stories and the truths they reveal. Sometimes ignorance is better. It would probably not be so popular oth...