💬 Quotes

"Some people are just bad, Pip. You spend your life looking for a reason, a motive, a trauma, but sometimes there isn't one. Some people are just hollow."

"He is the boy who has no grief, he is the boy who is not there, he is the boy who cannot speak, he is the boy who has no father."

"How is it that a person can be missing from a house, and yet the air remains full of them?"

"Everything is possible in this world, provided you have the wit to seize it and the coldness to hold it."

"She is a creature of the woods, of the wild places; she is a gatherer of herbs, a healer, a woman who understands the language of the earth."

"To be a duke’s daughter is to be a piece on a board, moved by hands you cannot see, for reasons you are not told."

"It is a terrible thing, to be a mother and to have to watch your child walk into the dark, and to be unable to follow him."

"Information is a physical quantity. It is the measure of the order of a system. If you take a system and you increase its information content, you are, by definition, reducing its entropy."

"The key to the whole mystery is not how to encrypt it, but how to ensure that the person who receives the message is the only one who can read it."

"You can’t just go around punching people in the face. It’s not how the world works. Except, of course, when it is."

"We are all of us, in our own small ways, trying to build a cathedral of logic in a desert of chaos."

"Gold is a way of storing value that doesn't depend on the promises of governments or the integrity of bankers. It is the ultimate hedge against human fallibility."

"The reason why you can't have nice things is because someone, somewhere, is always trying to turn them into a weapon, a tax, or a secret."

"We are all bitched from the start and you have to be careful of the bitching that comes from outside."

"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."

"Most people are like static. They are just background noise. But a freak—a real freak—is a melody. A freak is a chord."

"You’re a freak. You’re a wonderful, terrible freak. You’re the best of us."

"When your parents are gods, your childhood is a long, slow fall from heaven."

"Everything is a performance. If you aren’t onstage, you’re just waiting for the next cue."

"I don't want a soft life. I want a real life. And for that, I need you."