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The New Order (The Young World, #2) QUOTES

The New Order (The Young World, #2) QUOTES

1 " Presidents make history. I'm just a tool of history. "

― Chris Weitz , The New Order (The Young World, #2)

2 " An accessible introduction to the nature of political thought. Just what I always wanted. "

― Chris Weitz , The New Order (The Young World, #2)

3 " Well," I say, "we're practically there."
"Where?" says Jefferson.
"The future. "

― Chris Weitz , The New Order (The Young World, #2)

4 " The escaped polar bear owned Central Park. Until we killed it. "

― Chris Weitz , The New Order (The Young World, #2)

5 " There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are the things we don't know we don't know. "

― Chris Weitz , The New Order (The Young World, #2)

6 " It's our damage that makes us interesting. "

― Chris Weitz , The New Order (The Young World, #2)

7 " There is no place in the world where nobody dies. There is no place where nobody is hungry, or nobody hurts. That place is only in our imagination. But if we get our heads around it, we can go a little way toward making this real place more like that imaginary place. They call that place Utopia. "

― Chris Weitz , The New Order (The Young World, #2)

8 " I wanted to believe that everyone would throw down their arms and embrace one another, drop the trappings of war and coercion and return to the way they’d been. But my heart tells me that it wouldn’t be as pretty as that. It tells me that the new social contract would be written in blood. Once the light of survival started peeking through the door, people would trample one another to death in the race for the exit. It "

― Chris Weitz , The New Order (The Young World, #2)

9 " Like, my heart—not the blood-pumping one but the metaphorical, lovey-dovey, pitter-pattering, breakable one—is an accessory that draws too much power, so the moment I start feeling, a fuse clicks over and the whole thing just goes dead. To "

― Chris Weitz , The New Order (The Young World, #2)