💬 Quotes

"All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from nothing."

"I used to think that the body was a cage, a place where the soul was kept until it could be set free. Now I see that the body is the house where the memory lives."

"Perhaps that is what a language is: a map of our own failure to be understood."

"I don't want to be saved. I want to be destroyed by you."

"You are the only thing in this life that has ever made me want to be someone else. Someone better."

"Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls."

"The darkness didn't care about his intentions. It only cared about his hunger."

"Blood is not just life, it is a contract. And once you give it, you can never take it back."

"True strength isn't about what you can endure. It's about what you're willing to give up to keep the one you love safe."

"Pain is the price we pay for the things that actually matter. If it didn't hurt, it wouldn't be worth fighting for."

"The ledger is never a record of truth; it is merely a consensus of the comfortable."

"In this bank, we don't fix the hole in the floor; we simply redecorate the room until everyone forgets they are standing over a precipice."

"Liquidity is a polite term for the speed at which you can abandon your responsibilities."

"Integrity, in the world of high finance, is just a lack of imagination."

"We are not managing wealth; we are managing the anxiety of people who have too much of it."

"A fiscal irregularity is just a crime that hasn't finished being audited yet."

"Every family has its secrets, but some secrets are big enough to bury a lifetime of lies."

"We think we know the people we love, but we only know the versions of themselves they allow us to see."

"The past doesn't stay buried just because you want it to; it festers, waiting for the right moment to surface and destroy everything."

"To protect the ones you love, you sometimes have to become the monster you fear most."