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The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2) QUOTES

The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2) QUOTES

1 " Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them. "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

2 " I think people have an instinct for a family. You look until you find a mother, a father, a sister, a brother. They don't have to be blood relatives. They just have to love you. And when you find them, you don't have to look anymore. "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

3 " How much wickedness could you do in the service of good before it turned into pure evil? "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

4 " It isn’t healthy to care for someone who can never love you back. "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

5 " For purely selfish reasons, the old man had preserved what the rest of the world had destroyed. "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

6 " You get used to being evil. "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

7 " humans are endlessly stupid and greedy. "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

8 " The secret of successful education...is finding out how a particular person learns "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

9 " Oh, yes he does. He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap," declared Listen.
"You're the most obnoxious little brat I've ever met."
"Both of you be quiet, "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

10 " I could do it," Listen boasted. "Show me how and I could run the whole damn planet."
"You can't even reach the on button," said Cienfuegos. "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

11 " Bubonic plague killed a third of the people in Europe, but it destroyed the old governments and allowed their citizens to gain freedom. The result was a burst of creativity and prosperity never seen before. "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

12 " You must not be hurt by other people's ignorance. "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

13 " Eejits can feel pain, mi patron, otherwise I couldn't train them. I don't think they suffer in the same way we do. To suffer implies emotion, and eejits don't have that "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

14 " Once, he'd been satisfied by the music alone. Now he had learned about friendship... "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

15 " I think that people have an instinct for a family. You look until you find a mother, a father, a sister, a brother. They don't have to be blood relatives. They just have to love you. And when you find them, you don't have to look anymore. "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

16 " He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap. "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

17 " They ruined their environment, and their civilization collapsed. You'd think their descendants would have learned not to kill the earth that feeds them, but humans are endlessly stupid and greedy. "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

18 " It’s strange. He knows more about science than we do, and he’s a hundred years in the past. He says we depend too much on machines. All we know how to do is press buttons, but he knows how the buttons work. "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

19 " Matt had to swallow hard to keep tears from forming. Fidelito had called him brother! "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)

20 " Do your zombies eat brains? Are they horrible and scary?

They're only sad. "

― Nancy Farmer , The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)