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Top 25 Daryl Gregory Quotes (2025 Update)

Daryl Gregory Quote: “The best aunts aren’t substitute parents, they’re co-conspirators.”

1. “The best aunts aren’t substitute parents, they’re co-conspirators.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “Love at first sight is a myth, but thundering sexual attraction at first sight is hard science.”

2. “Love at first sight is a myth, but thundering sexual attraction at first sight is hard science.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “The coffee was terrible and the bacon was ordinary, but the pancakes were avatars of some perfect Ur-cake whose existence until now could only be deduced from the statistical variations in other, lesser pancakes.”

3. “The coffee was terrible and the bacon was ordinary, but the pancakes were avatars of some perfect Ur-cake whose existence until now could only be deduced from the statistical variations in other, lesser pancakes.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “Graciella’s frown was there and gone in an instant. He didn’t know how to interpret that. If they were playing poker, it would have telegraphed that she’d picked a bad card, and he would have bet against her. But in the game of Real Women, he was forever a novice.”

4. “Graciella’s frown was there and gone in an instant. He didn’t know how to interpret that. If they were playing poker, it would have telegraphed that she’d picked a bad card, and he would have bet against her. But in the game of Real Women, he was forever a novice.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “The brain is a collective, a huge number of all these thinking modules. It doesn’t make a decision, it arrives at one.”

5. “The brain is a collective, a huge number of all these thinking modules. It doesn’t make a decision, it arrives at one.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “They piled into Irene’s Festiva, a car that won the award for most ironic distance between name and driving experience.”

6. “They piled into Irene’s Festiva, a car that won the award for most ironic distance between name and driving experience.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “Poor bastard. Literally. His mom was broke, and his dad had abandoned the family years ago.”

7. “Poor bastard. Literally. His mom was broke, and his dad had abandoned the family years ago.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “It was as if someone had thrown a bucket of paint into his face, and the shade was named Blinding Pain.”

8. “It was as if someone had thrown a bucket of paint into his face, and the shade was named Blinding Pain.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “Duty eats free will for breakfast.”

9. “Duty eats free will for breakfast.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “We’re different from other people, she’d said. We only feel at home when we’re a little bit afraid.”

10. “We’re different from other people, she’d said. We only feel at home when we’re a little bit afraid.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “Eight-year-olds playing soccer, Teddy decided, was a lot like a pack of border collies chasing a single sheep, except that the dogs would’ve used more teamwork.”

11. “Eight-year-olds playing soccer, Teddy decided, was a lot like a pack of border collies chasing a single sheep, except that the dogs would’ve used more teamwork.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “Everyone develops a tolerance to happiness.”

12. “Everyone develops a tolerance to happiness.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “Then they were off again, across the unbroken sprawl of Chicagoland, a single city made up of interlocking strip malls, decorated at random intervals by WELCOME TO signs with defiantly rural names – River Forest, Forest Glen, Glenview – and enough dales and groves and elms and oaks to populate Middle Earth. The flatlanders had been especially determined to tag every bump of land with a “Heights” or “Ridge.” Pity the poor hobbit trying to find anything to climb in the town of Mount Prospect.”

13. “Then they were off again, across the unbroken sprawl of Chicagoland, a single city made up of interlocking strip malls, decorated at random intervals by WELCOME TO signs with defiantly rural names – River Forest, Forest Glen, Glenview – and enough dales and groves and elms and oaks to populate Middle Earth. The flatlanders had been especially determined to tag every bump of land with a “Heights” or “Ridge.” Pity the poor hobbit trying to find anything to climb in the town of Mount Prospect.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “The problem with getting old was that each day had to compete with the thousands of others gone by. How wonderful would a day have to be to win such a beauty contest? To even make it into the finals? Never mind that memory rigged the game, airbrushed the flaws from its contestants, while the present had to shuffle into the spotlight unaided, all pockmarked with mundanities and baggy with annoyances.”

14. “The problem with getting old was that each day had to compete with the thousands of others gone by. How wonderful would a day have to be to win such a beauty contest? To even make it into the finals? Never mind that memory rigged the game, airbrushed the flaws from its contestants, while the present had to shuffle into the spotlight unaided, all pockmarked with mundanities and baggy with annoyances.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “What I remember are tentacles. Tentacles and teeth.”

15. “What I remember are tentacles. Tentacles and teeth.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “The business travelers, however, were all business, from their business jacket to their business skirts and their skinny business shoes. They sliced through the crowd of civilians like business sharks.”

16. “The business travelers, however, were all business, from their business jacket to their business skirts and their skinny business shoes. They sliced through the crowd of civilians like business sharks.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “She believed that people were captains of their own destiny. He agreed, as long as it was understood that every captain was destined to go down with the ship, and there wasn’t a damned thing you could do about it.”

17. “She believed that people were captains of their own destiny. He agreed, as long as it was understood that every captain was destined to go down with the ship, and there wasn’t a damned thing you could do about it.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “That morning, while Mom had fought with Grandpa, Aunt Sel had asked me to bring her a glass of wine – it was nine in the morning – and when I’d delivered it she’d handed me a ten dollar bill and said, “I dislike children, but I do appreciate decent service.”

18. “That morning, while Mom had fought with Grandpa, Aunt Sel had asked me to bring her a glass of wine – it was nine in the morning – and when I’d delivered it she’d handed me a ten dollar bill and said, “I dislike children, but I do appreciate decent service.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “It was like wandering her house, except that everything was bright and blinking and pixelated.”

19. “It was like wandering her house, except that everything was bright and blinking and pixelated.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “That was the thing about the funeral process; by the time you buried someone, days after their death, the body looked so little like the person you knew that it had become something else: remains. It was a gift, really. A necessary distancing. It felt immoral to put a loved one underground, but to bury some husk they’d left behind? No problem. It’s easy to throw out leftovers.”

20. “That was the thing about the funeral process; by the time you buried someone, days after their death, the body looked so little like the person you knew that it had become something else: remains. It was a gift, really. A necessary distancing. It felt immoral to put a loved one underground, but to bury some husk they’d left behind? No problem. It’s easy to throw out leftovers.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “I’ve always been a sucker for the beautiful and the batshit.”

21. “I’ve always been a sucker for the beautiful and the batshit.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “New love walks up and slaps you on the butt, demands your attention, gets your pulse racing. Old love lies in wait. It’s there in the evening when your eyes are closing. It slides into bed beside you, runs its ghost fingers through your hair, whispers your secret name. Old love is never gone.”

22. “New love walks up and slaps you on the butt, demands your attention, gets your pulse racing. Old love lies in wait. It’s there in the evening when your eyes are closing. It slides into bed beside you, runs its ghost fingers through your hair, whispers your secret name. Old love is never gone.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “Nobody thought of themselves as a hillbilly, but they liked knowing they were out there somewhere, like the buffalo.”

23. “Nobody thought of themselves as a hillbilly, but they liked knowing they were out there somewhere, like the buffalo.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “The problem with getting old was that each day had to compete with the thousands of others gone by. How wonderful would a day have to be to win such a beauty contest?”

24. “The problem with getting old was that each day had to compete with the thousands of others gone by. How wonderful would a day have to be to win such a beauty contest?”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “Stella had learned to do a passable impersonation of a normal person, but she couldn’t keep it up for long.”

25. “Stella had learned to do a passable impersonation of a normal person, but she couldn’t keep it up for long.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “The thing about skeletons was, you never knew how much space they were taking up in the closet until you got rid of them.”

26. “The thing about skeletons was, you never knew how much space they were taking up in the closet until you got rid of them.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “This was a southern home, and even blood enemies wouldn’t draw swords before coffee and corn bread.”

27. “This was a southern home, and even blood enemies wouldn’t draw swords before coffee and corn bread.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “Even furious, Mrs. M looked put together. Luce had grown up with women like her: showgirls and burlesque performers who understood the transformational power of vivid makeup and structurally sound underwear.”

28. “Even furious, Mrs. M looked put together. Luce had grown up with women like her: showgirls and burlesque performers who understood the transformational power of vivid makeup and structurally sound underwear.”

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Daryl Gregory Quote: “There was as much joy in surrendering free will as exercising it.”

29. “There was as much joy in surrendering free will as exercising it.”

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