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41 " As his mind continues to drift away from his body, he had one final realization. The world itself was alive, too. It swirled around you and sped past your eyes and ears, so fast you could never see it, but slow at the same time, like a tree growing taller in a park. And all the sounds you hears-the wind whipping past your ears and the ocean's whispering and the tickle of the whitecaps against your boat-that was earth's blood pumping through imperceptible veins, and some of those veins were nothing more than people like Shy or Carmen, or Addie. "
― Matt de la Peña , The Living (The Living, #1)
42 " But maybe that’s what getting older is all about, right, Clark? You start to realize just how much of the world is unfair. And how few people care. It’s not about justice, right? It’s about power. And the people where I live…we don’t have any. Not yet. "
― Matt de la Peña , Superman: Dawnbreaker
43 " I think things will always be okay between us, Clark. That’s what I’m beginning to realize. Until they’re not. Know what I mean? And even then they’ll probably still be okay. "
44 " Entendía que mi vida no tenía sentido, y ese conocimiento me liberaba de tener que lograr cualquier cosa. "
― Matt de la Peña
45 " Sería imposible describir el peso de toda esa culpa. "
46 " It was so easy. A slight curl of his right pointer finger and a man’s life was gone forever. "
― Matt de la Peña , The Hunted (The Living, #2)
47 " People thought there was this huge chasm between life and death, but really there was nothing. Not when you had a gun. You could end someone in the blink of an eye. With the twitch of a finger. Before you even knew what happened. And the world didn’t stop like everyone probably thought it did. It just kept right on spinning. It didn’t give a shit about your karma or your act of violence. "
48 " For me the power is in the writing itself,” Shoeshine said. “Not the record of it. Once the word is on the page its energy is lost. Once a journal is full, it’s no different than dead skin to be shed. "