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Kin QUOTES

Kin QUOTES

1 " Finch was his own country, the government unstable, the population volatile. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

2 " Living is hard; Death is easy. And there are no answers on either side. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

3 " Without proof of an afterlife, they were intimately aware of their mortality and the limitations of it. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

4 " He wasn't afraid to die. He was afraid to die alone. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

5 " Every time I walk these streets I think we made some kinda bet with God and lost. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

6 " Everything isn't dead. Only gone. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

7 " Angels told me you're the poison, and always have been. Said you used God as an excuse to hurt people, includin' your own kin. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

8 " Everything is preplanned, a fact that might not upset humankind as much if they were let in on the secret, "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

9 " A thin pig was about as common as balls on a scarecrow. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

10 " He'd first seen her as a battered broken thing and his empathy had quickly become desire. She would wake, he'd believed, and she would need him. But it was clear now that she needed no one. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

11 " Keep goin', he told himself. Not far. Get there and you can sit and figure out what happens next. But keep movin'. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

12 " if you're hell-bent on lookin' for fairness, you're on the wrong damn planet. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

13 " Standing with the headlights behind them, they looked like devils come from Hell itself. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

14 " Pete would listen carefully to his father's words, and feel the pain that came with them, but told himself Pa was only saying those things out of disappointment and anger, and because it was better to throw mean words at the boy than at his own reflection in the mirror. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

15 " You leave that lid screwed on tight, we're gonna die sooner'r later. Best just to set us loose while we still know how to fly. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

16 " Finch knew that no matter how old it might say she was on her I.D., what those men had done to her had shoved her headlong into adulthood. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

17 " Don't you get it? It doesn't matter where I go. Here, back there, France, the North Pole, it doesn't matter. I'll never be safe again. You could build a castle around me and seal it up and I'd still be what I am. And what I am is scared. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

18 " I need to see the world put back on its axis, things put right, even if I don't belong in it anymore. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

19 " Do what you have to do, I guess. But sooner or later you're going to run out of mirrors to shoot at. Then what will you do? "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin

20 " Beside him, Finch had found peace, and for a moment Beau envied him so much that his eyes started to close, and he quickly shook his head, braced a hand on the ground and raised himself up. He cried out and stopped, but did not abandon the progress he'd made. With one hand clamped over his belly, he drew his legs beneath him, relying on their strength to help him up, and they did. He stood, shoulder pressed to the tree, gasping, his knees trembling, the front of his jeans soaked with blood. Beau was weak from blood loss, but he was not yet dead, and that was something. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin