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The Chain QUOTES

The Chain QUOTES

1 " A man once told me that all books should end at chapter seventy-seven. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

2 " The darkness keeps its own counsel. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

3 " Number one: you are not the first and you will certainly not be the last. Number two: remember, it’s not about the money—it’s about The Chain. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

4 " thumbs through Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café and is momentarily "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

5 " If I don’t make it, don’t let them cast some asshole to play me in the movie version of this, "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

6 " Getting rid of the mirrors—what a joke that was. Just hiding the truth. All those smashed mirrors in the town dump. All that bad luck circling back to her. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

7 " George Orwell was wrong, she thinks. In the future, it won’t be the state that keeps tabs on everyone by extensive use of surveillance; it will be the people. They’ll do the state’s work for it by constantly uploading their locations, interests, food preferences, restaurant choices, political ideas, and hobbies to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media sites. We are our own secret police. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

8 " Life is fragile, fleeting and precious.
And to live at all is miracle enough. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

9 " A true predator sometimes kills even when it isn’t hungry. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

10 " Life is a cascade of nows falling on top of one another without meaning or purpose. Of all the philosophers, only Schopenhauer ever got that right. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

11 " Ideally, the business and the personal should never mix, but with human beings there’s always going to be some blurring of the lines. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

12 " George Orwell was wrong, she thinks. In the future, it won’t be the state that keeps tabs on everyone by extensive use of surveillance; it will be the people. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

13 " It only takes two facing mirrors to construct a labyrinth. Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

14 " We’re all riding on our bubbles, she thinks, we’re all waiting for the blessèd break. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

15 " Chemo is a little death that you invite in in order to keep the big death waiting outside on the porch. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

16 " They have all sipped from the Drink Me bottle. They have all unwound the clew of red thread. They have all fallen through the looking glass. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

17 " Recall that one builds a labyrinth not to hide but to lie in wait. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

18 " As J. G. Ballard pointed out, civilization is just a thin, fragile veneer over the law of the jungle: Better you than me. Better your kid than my kid. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

19 " onomatopoeia "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain

20 " She texts Kylie the dumb joke she’s been saving up all morning: How do you think the unthinkable? When Kylie doesn’t respond after a minute, Rachel sends her the answer: With an itheberg. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Chain