When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can’t describe.” “We all felt it,” Nick said. “You may have felt it, but I caused it.” Then both his eyes seemed to go far away. “Something changed out there. I don’t know what it was, but something in the world changed because that kid didn’t deserve what I did to him—and the powers that be know that I did it.” Nick watched as a tear fell from his Everlost eye and disappeared through the living world table. “What if,” said Nick, not even sure what he was going to say yet, “what if you were that kid and you were told you could change the world, but you would have to sacrifice yourself to do it?” Clarence chuckled at the thought. “I believe that question was already asked a long time ago, and that creepy kid did not look anything like Jesus to me.” “But you do think that something changed. . . .” “I don’t know whether it’s good or bad.” “What if it’s neither?” suggested Nick. “What if we get to make it one or the other?
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Then we get that one ... CONNIE NEAL She skated great, but emotionally it was a very low-key thing. It's coming up again. NEAL MARSHALL Warmer than normal Januarys have a penchant for producing surprisingly strong payroll numbers. NEAL SOSS These regulations aren't about stopping a Wal-Mart. These regulations are about making Stafford a be... NEAL CUNNINGHAM Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say thi... DIANE NEAL Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently a... NEAL STEPHENSON Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything ... NEAL STEPHENSON Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepi... NEAL STEPHENSON The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness NEAL STEPHENSON Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise. NEAL STEPHENSON All these beefy Caucasians with guns. Get enough of them together,looking for the America they alway... NEAL STEPHENSON The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right n... NEAL STEPHENSON Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relati... NEAL STEPHENSON All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or somet... NEAL STEPHENSON When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technol... NEAL STEPHENSON The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in ano... NEAL STEPHENSON Shit, if I took time out to have an opinion about everything, I wouldn't get any work done. NEAL STEPHENSON He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading sta... NEAL STEPHENSON It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,” Vic says, looking through his magic sight. “Five g... NEAL STEPHENSON ..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this pla... NEAL STEPHENSON When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens. NEAL STEPHENSON We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your... NEAL STEPHENSON This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?” Juanita shrugs. “What'... NEAL STEPHENSON Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code. NEAL STEPHENSON Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big ol... NEAL STEPHENSON