Neuromancer Quotes

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. (1.1)

He'd operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacking into a custom cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual ha...

"I think you screwed up, Case. I showed up and you just fit me right into your reality picture." (1.213)

But [Case] also saw a certain sense in the notion that burgeoning technologies require outlaw zones, that Night City wasn't there for its inhabitants, but as a deliberately unsupervised playground...

The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. (1.17)

And now [Case] remembered [Linda] that way, her face bathed in restless laser light, features, reduced to a code. (1.41)

Case fell into the prison of his own flesh. (1.29)

[Case had] watched [Linda's] personality fragment, calving like an iceberg, splinters drifting away, and finally he'd seen the raw need, the hungry armature of addiction. He'd watched her track the...

Biz here was a constant subliminal hum, and death the accepted punishment for laziness, carelessness, lack of grace, the failure to heed the demands of an intricate protocol. (1.38)