As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
Here is the boy, drowning.
People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don’t mind being told what to do.
Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
Now that I’ve seen her, I can’t stop seeing her.
You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.
Know yourself and go in swinging.
Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.
I want a campfire box.
Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn’t lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn’t had that in ages.
We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we’d go crazy.
You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there’s always more than this. There’s always something you don’t know.
Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.