💬 Quotes

"I often think about the thin line between a normal life and a tragedy. It’s just one wrong turn, one bad decision, one person in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"Fear is a powerful motivator. It can make you do things you never thought yourself capable of, and it can force you to stay silent when every part of you wants to scream."

"Everyone in this town has something to hide. Some secrets are small, mere indiscretions, but others are dark enough to destroy everything."

"You can go home again, but you can never really go back to who you were before the world broke you."

"The memory of her has become the memory of a life that I have lived myself, and in which I have been formed and scarred."

"The crime was so monstrous that the people who had committed it were no longer people. They were monsters."

"I wanted to be with her and away from her at the same time."

"What should we have done? We were young and we were part of it, but we were also witnesses who could have done nothing."

"The reading wasn't a way to hide from the world, but a way to make it intelligible."

"Whatever I did, I was either doing it with her or thinking of her, and even when I didn't think of her, I was thinking of her."

"Never, in the course of our scientific advancement, have we had to face a situation where the product was greater than the creator."

"The Three Laws of Robotics are the essential guiding principles of a positronic brain. They are not merely suggestions; they are the fundamental architecture of machine morality."

"Robots are not dangerous. Their environment is dangerous. Only when a human creates a situation where a robot's logic fails does tragedy occur."

"You can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans—except that the robot is better."

"If a robot can be created which can act like a man, then a man can be created who can act like a robot. The distinction becomes a matter of definition rather than reality."

"The Master Argument is that robots are simply the next step in evolution, and it is the destiny of humanity to become obsolete."

"Every woman is a house, and every house has a secret room. And in every secret room, there is a ghost."

"Magic is not about what you see. It is about what you are persuaded to believe you have missed."

"You can’t run from a ghost if you carry the graveyard inside your own ribcage."

"The past is a phantom limb. You feel it itching, you feel it aching, you reach out to scratch it, but there is nothing there but thin air."