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The Hunted (The Living, #2) QUOTES

The Hunted (The Living, #2) QUOTES

1 " Truth is not a fixed thing. It evolves and morphs and inverts. What is true today may not be true tomorrow. "

― Matt de la Peña , The Hunted (The Living, #2)

2 " There are two kinds of people in this world, young fella. Those who can sit in the loneliness of existence and those who turn away. "

― Matt de la Peña , The Hunted (The Living, #2)

3 " How overwhelming the world could seem when you were thrust into the guts of it. How little power you realized human beings actually had compared with the earth. "

― Matt de la Peña , The Hunted (The Living, #2)

4 " Shoeshine looked disappointed. “Don’t do that, young fella.” “Do what?” “Try and label everyone you meet.” The man coughed again. “It’s lazy. "

― Matt de la Peña , The Hunted (The Living, #2)

5 " How weird to think that people were born in different eras, with different adversities. A world war for one generation. Earthquakes and a deadly disease for the next. "

― Matt de la Peña , The Hunted (The Living, #2)

6 " 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)

7 " 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. "

― Matt de la Peña , The Hunted (The Living, #2)

8 " 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. "

― Matt de la Peña , The Hunted (The Living, #2)