21 quotes found
“If youre smart, you care. And if you care, you love.”
“But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.”
“When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.”
“At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.”
“Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.”
“on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future.”
“But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”
“It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.”
“Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered fears, enough to...”
“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just...”
“The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...”
“We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the r...”
“Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There...”
“Because I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him. Because I do want. I'm not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there, just like the hate and anger were there before...”
“Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.”
“Ive been in the Wilds for a month and a half now, and in that time Ive almost forgotten about the fences. Its amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that...”
“This is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people habe a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will cl...”
“And suddenly I am blindingly angry at Raven--for her lectures, and her stubbornness, and for thinking that the way that you help people is by driving them against a wall, by beating them down until...”
“But I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him. Because I do want. I'm not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there, just like the hate and anger were there before. Bu...”
“The DFA and organizations like it have pushed and squeezed and elbowed out all the feeling in the world. They have clamped their fists around a geyser to keep it from exploding.But the pressure eve...”
