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Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2) QUOTES

Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2) QUOTES

1 " A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

2 " Face the facts. Then act on them. It’s the only mantra I know, the only doctrine I have to offer you, and it’s harder than you’d think, because I swear humans seem hardwired to do anything but. Face the facts. Don’t pray, don’t wish, don’t buy into centuries-old dogma and dead rhetoric. Don’t give in to your conditioning or your visions or your fucked-up sense of . . . whatever. Face the facts. Then act. QUELLCRIST "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

3 " The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine. Reality doesn't offer this assurance, so it's very easy to develop the mistaken impression that you're in control. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

4 " In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If you don’t, then the agenda makers will pick up the perfume of your silence like swamp panthers on the scent of blood, and the next thing you know, the person expected to bear the cost will be you. And you may not have what it takes to pay. QUELLCRIST "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

5 " Religion is religion, however you wrap it, and like Quell says, a preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

6 " In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If you don’t, then the agenda makers will pick up the perfume of your silence like swamp panthers on the scent of blood, and the next thing you know, the person expected to bear the cost will be you. And you may not have what it takes to pay. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

7 " Face the facts. Then act on them. It’s the only mantra I know, the only doctrine I have to offer you, and it’s harder than you’d think, because I swear humans seem hardwired to do anything but. Face the facts. Don’t pray, don’t wish, don’t buy into centuries-old dogma and dead rhetoric. Don’t give in to your conditioning or your visions or your fucked-up sense of . . . whatever. Face the facts. Then act. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

8 " Religion is funny stuff, and it has unpredictable effects on those who use it. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

9 " He’s a pretty serious believer.’ ‘Yeah? Funny how it doesn’t get in the way of his commercial life.’ ‘Yeah, well. Organised religion, you know. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

10 " That’s right. People. It’s all people. People and their stupid fucking groups. Show me an individual decision maker whose decisions have harmed me, and I’ll melt his stack to slag. Show me a group with the united purpose of harming me and I’ll take them all down if I can. But don’t expect me to waste time and effort on abstract hate. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

11 " The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning... "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

12 " Most people don’t like to think things through. Too much effort. They’d rather have the edited visceral highlights. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

13 " A Man Down Is Not a Man Dead. Leave No Stack Behind. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

14 " I thought that was what religion was. Simplification for the hard of thinking. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

15 " According to the psychosurgeons, we act more in keeping with our true selves in a dream than in any other situation, including the throes of orgasm and the moment of our deaths. Maybe that explains why so much of what we do in the real world makes so little sense. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

16 " The laugh tagged on the end of it is forced as well. I smile fractionally. Edged with old pain, but there’s a strange comfort to the way it hurts. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

17 " So where the fuck are you, Isaac? I can hear your breathing, I just need to see you so I can stop it. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

18 " Soldiers follow orders. Regardless. The moment you refuse to carry out an order, you’re no longer a soldier. You’re just a paid killer trying to renegotiate your contract. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

19 " Screams powering down to sobbing. The sickly stench of charred flesh made it across in ribbons to where I lay. It was like a homecoming. "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

20 " Anyone who builds satellites we can’t shoot down needs to be taken seriously and, if they ever come back for their hardware, be approached with caution. That’s not religion, it’s common sense. Quellcrist Falconer Metaphysics for Revolutionaries "

― Richard K. Morgan , Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)