💬 Quotes

"We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond hunger, beyond desire, beyond self-interest."

"The border between life and death is often no more than a surgeon’s incision."

"Whatever you do, you have to be able to live with yourself afterward."

"Perhaps the reason we exist is to be witnesses to the lives of others, to bear the burden of their stories when they no longer can."

"There are some people who can't be fixed, Marion. Not because the technology isn't there, but because the soul has its own timing."

"I am not my brother's keeper, but I am my brother's brother. That is a bond that survives everything."

"I made it on the bevel."

"It’s not that I don’t begrudge him the money, but it is that he is making me pay for the privilege of killing her."

"I can see the cold mold of my blood and the shape of my thoughts for the first time."

"Words are no good; words don't ever fit even what they are trying to say at."

"Meet Mrs. Bundren."

"I am becoming someone I don't know, and I am not even sure if I like her."

"It’s so hard to be yourself when you’re not sure who you are in the first place."

"I really felt like a princess, beautiful and glowing, but then the mask slipped and I saw the hollow shell underneath."

"Why is it that the things that make you feel the best are always the things that are the worst for you?"

"I’m tired of running, but I’m even more afraid of stopping and seeing what’s really there."

"If only I could go back to before everything happened, before I was just a number in someone else’s game."

"How can you be sure? Maybe we’re the Martians. Maybe we’re the ones who don’t belong."

"We have too many people on Earth. We have too much technology. We have lost our way, and we are looking for a new start."

"They knew that for all their rockets, for all their power, they were but children playing with fire in a house of straw."