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21 " Laura, this isn't love. Love lets you go on a trip without following you. Love can live without you for a week, knowing you'll come back.''No, it can't.' The afternoon shadows grew long and cold. In spite of the chill, a heat rose up inside her and flooded her face. 'That's how you know it's true love. When he can't live without you.'Karen shook her head. 'That's how you know it's obsession. Or something else. "
― M.R. Carey , The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts, #2)
22 " No amount of expertly choreographed PR could prevail, in the end, against Armageddon. It strolled over the barricades and took its pleasure. "
― M.R. Carey , The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl with All the Gifts, #1)
23 " They walk on endlessly. Time elongates, fractures, rewinds and replays in stuttering moments that - while they have no coherent internal logic - all seem drearily familiar and inevitable. "
24 " In olden times, it meant the long dark of winter was finally over, and things would start growing again and the world would be renewed. The solstice was the promise–that the days wouldn’t just keep on getting shorter until they disappeared altogether. The equinox was the day when the promise was fulfilled. "
25 " Anything you can do, I can do better. "
― M.R. Carey , Someone Like Me
26 " Every kid is born a fascist,” Liz said. “You have to pound democracy into them a little at a time. "
27 " I don't like people very much. I'm all in favour of them as a concept, but I don't get on with them at all when I have to mix with them. "
― M.R. Carey , The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy #1)
28 " Growing up and growing old. Playing. Exploring. Like Pooh and Piglet. And then like the Famous Five. And then like Heidi and Anne of Green Gables. And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. Everything is always both. But you have to open it to find that out. "
29 " She goes limp. The world pours in through her eyes and ears, her nose, her tongue, her skin. There's too much of it, and it never stops coming. She's like the drain in the corner of the shower room. "
― M.R. Carey
30 " There's nothing of humanity left in them, nothing to remind anyone that they were once alive. They're more like clothes that someone has taken off and left lying on the ground. "
31 " you can't save people from the world. There's nowhere else to take them. "
32 " And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. Everything is always both. But you have to open it to find that out. "
33 " The truth is the truth, the only prize worth having. If you deny it, you’re only showing that you’re unworthy of it. "
34 " It’s not just Pandora who had that inescapable flaw. It seems like everyone has been built in a way that sometimes makes them do wrong and stupid things. "
35 " the horror of the unknown is more frightening than any horror you can understand "
36 " She’s as big as four-fifths of five-eighths of fuck all, but she takes no bullshit from anyone. "
37 " It’s like before the Breakdown people used to spend their whole lives making cocoons for themselves out of furniture and ornaments and books and toys and pictures and any kind of shit they could find. As though they hoped they’d be born out of the cocoon as something else. "
38 " She’s lived in Plato’s cave, staring at the shadows on the wall. Now she’s been turned around to face the fire. "
39 " Melanie finds this interesting in spite of herself — that you can use words to hide things, or not to touch them, or to pretend that they're something different than they are. "
40 " It's equinox, with the world balanced between winter and summer, life and death, like a spinning ball balanced on the tip of someone's finger. "