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Borne (Borne, #1) QUOTES

Borne (Borne, #1) QUOTES

1 " Early on, I had thought Wick was reaching for a body across the bed. But, for a long time, he had been reaching for me--for the person called Rachel, who did indeed, in the end, love back the person name Wick. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

2 " Бывают моменты, когда события, свидетелем которых ты являешься, настолько огромны, что ты просто не можешь найти им место в своей повседневной жизни. Хуже, когда эти события повторяются снова и снова, становясь все огромнее, своего рода водопад, подобного которому ты никогда не встречал и не знаешь, к чему его отнести. Что особенно во всем этом неприятно, это то, что постепенно ты привыкаешь, перестаешь обращать внимание. И когда эти явления продолжают повторяться, само их величие приобретает для тебя черты повседневности, сам их масштаб делает невозможными любые попытки ими восхищаться, ужасаться или судить. И понять их значение. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

3 " He would study any number of topics and had no real preferences, his many eyes enthusiastically moving back and forth as he read the pages at a steady clip. I don't believe he needed light, or eyes, to read, but I know he liked to mimic what he saw me doing. Perhaps he even thought it was polite to seem to need light, to seem to need eyes. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

4 " There were five of them, and four had traded their eyes for green-gold wasps that curled into their sockets and compounded their vision. Claws graced their hands like sharp commas. Scales at their throats burned red when they breathed. One wing sighed bellows-like out of the naked back of the shortest, the one who still had slate-gray human eyes. After a while, I'd wished he had wasps instead. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

5 " In the city, the line between nightmare and reality was fluid, just as the context of the words killer and death had shifted over time. Perhaps Mord was responsible. Perhaps we all were. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

6 " We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

7 " That's the problem with people who are not human. You can't tell how badly they're hurt, or how much they need your help, and until you ask, they don't always know how to tell you. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

8 " The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

9 " We were always finding each other and losing each other and finding each other again, and that was just the way of us. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

10 " Like most men, Wick could not help terror about one thing erupting as anger about something else. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

11 " But minds find ways to protect themselves, build fortifications, and some of those walls become traps. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

12 " Am I a person or a weapon?"
Always he wanted to know that he was a person. He just kept giving me different choices so one time I might slip up and say, "You're not a person."
"You are a person. But like a person, you can be a weapon, too. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

13 " It was what my mother said sometimes-to be mindful that the universe beyond still existed, that we did not know what lived there, and it might be terrible to reconcile ourselves to knowing so little of it, but that didn't mean it stopped existing. There was something else beyond all of this, that would never know us or our struggles, never care, and that it would go on without us. My mother had found that idea comforting. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

14 " I would never know anyone like Borne ever again, and even if I saw Borne again it would never be the same as when we lived together in the Balcony Cliffs, the way we’d run down the corridors and punched holes in the walls and joked and laughed and I’d taught him new words that he’d held there in his mind like jewels, and repeated over and over until he knew them better than I did. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

15 " Once, it was different. Once, people had homes and parents and went to schools. Cities existed within countries and those countries had leaders. Travel could be for adventure or recreation, not survival. But by the time I was grown up, the wider context was a sick joke. Incredible, how a slip could become a freefall and a freefall could become a hell where we lived on as ghosts in a haunted world. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

16 " but this was always the test of our relationship. Were we symbiotic or parasitic? "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

17 " It's not being hurt that hurts,' Borne said. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

18 " Borne made me happy, but happiness never made anyone less stupid "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

19 " Perhaps only I could truly make Wick a person, by forgiving him, and if I forgave him, if I showed I forgave him, then maybe we could be people together. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)

20 " I was alive, and from past experience I knew in time I would forget enough to again pretend that we could someday be free. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)