💬 Quotes

"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby."

"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and people who are Real don't mind how they look."

"Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

"You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept."

"Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings who are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it."

"The iron fist in the velvet glove. That is the secret of real power."

"To be alive is to be a player in the game. To be dead is to be off the board. Choose your moves wisely, for the board is always changing."

"History is a dream left behind by those who are dead. The future is a dream we are all creating together."

"Better to be a simple man in a storm than a king in a cage."

"Karma is the sum of all your past deeds. It is the inescapable weight you carry into every tomorrow."

"When you are a guest, you are a master of nothing, and yet, in the right hands, a guest can become the master of everything."

"Whoever saves one life saves the world entire."

"Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't."

"The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf."

"The past is a pool of darkness. We look into it and see only our own reflections."

"Everything is connected in the end. The gun and the hand, the hand and the mind, the mind and the history."

"History is a transcript of events, but it is not the events themselves. There is always a gap, a space where the secrets hide."

"They want a grand design. They want to believe that someone, somewhere, is pulling the strings. It is more comforting to be a pawn in a great game than a victim of a random act."

"He was a man who lived in the margins of his own life, waiting for the world to notice him, and when it finally did, it was through the sights of a rifle."

"The bullet is a point of departure. It changes everything. It creates a new reality where the truth is no longer a matter of evidence, but a matter of faith."