23 quotes found
“The bent but unbroken ones.”
“Our hearts, the war.Her body, the battlefield.”
“Who wants to read a book when you can blow something up?”
“Pain is necessary. Pain is life. Without pain there can be no joy.”
“You know you've reached a very sad place when the only person who can make you laugh is yourself.”
“Without trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops.”
“Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.”
“She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touch her shoulder. Her dark hair brushes the back of my hand. Her dark eyes shine. Their brightness ...”
“You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.”
“The world existed for a very long time before this particular set of seven billion billion atoms came along and it will go right on after they're scattered up, down and sideways.”
“The experience was like running into someone you hadn't seen since middle school - you recognize them, but what you really notice is the ways they've changed. They don't match your memory of how th...”
“Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.”
“Beyond their immaculate design, the reason sharks rule the ocean is their complete indifference to everything except feeding, procreation, and defending their territory. The shark does not love. It...”
“That's my name. Not Cassie for Cassandra. Or Cassie for Cassidy. And it's not Cassie for Cassiopeia. Not anymore. I am more than her now.I am all of them, Evan and Ben and Marika and Megan and Sam....”
“The human brain has a marvelous capacity to screen and sort experience, protecting itself against the unbearable.”
“He was a finisher who could not finish. He was the heart of a hunter who lacked the heart to kill.In her journal she had written I am humanity, and something in those three words split him in two.S...”
“To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder.”
“It wasn't a good fake smile. You could always tell when she was faking, because she didn't look friendly; she looked like she was going to throw up.”
“It's always been this way, I wanted to tell him. We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.”
“You haven't heard a damn word I've said. See, this is why I can't stand your kinds. You light your candles and mumble your latin spells and pray to a god who isn't there, doesn't care, or is just p...”
“I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the baconthe potential of bacongives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.”
