13 quotes found
“A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.”
“... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions.”
“The choices she's made have left her without choice.”
“You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.”
“It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.”
“I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.”
“She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it....”
“By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain numbe...”
“A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.”
“Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens...”
“It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things ...”
“As she rounded a corner one of her favourite songs came on the radio, and sunlight filtered through the trees the way it does with lace curtains, reminding her of her grandmother, and tears began t...”
“Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen....”
