11 quotes found
“Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.”
“I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh.”
“We die a little every day and by degrees were reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.”
“There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.”
“Were built of contradictions, all of us. Its those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and Ill ...”
“There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.”
“Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a mans memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surel...”
“Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.”
“When you've committed yourself to violence it takes an almost inhuman effort to stop short. It's one of those things that once you've started need to be finished, rather like coitus, interrupting t...”
“The way Id put it, said Makin, is that Rike cant make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.”
“As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must b...”
