Natalie C. Anderson > Quotes

“People don't look for revenge to make them happy. They do it because they must.”
― Natalie C. Anderson, City of Saints & Thieves

“I only know how to read because I steal books from rich people.”
― Natalie C. Anderson, City of Saints & Thieves

“Rules will break you as often as you break them. But I guess that’s okay. Maybe I’m done with rules.For now, anyway. I think I will just be. I will exist. And see what happens.”
― Natalie C. Anderson, City of Saints & Thieves

“People are complicated creatures, my dear. The ways they find of explaining the bad things that happen in the world are not always the right ones. Sometimes they are simply the easy ones. They are the ones that give them enough comfort to sleep at night, the ones that let them take the blame off themselves.”
― Natalie C. Anderson, City of Saints & Thieves

“If you're going to be a thief, the first thing you need to know is that you don't exist.”
― Natalie C. Anderson, City of Saints & Thieves

“I have brainpower for miles, sweetie, don't you worry. It's my computer I'm worried about.
- Boyboy”
― Natalie C. Anderson

“Life, even in the middle of all this death, is persistent.”
― Natalie C. Anderson, City of Saints & Thieves

“Without warning, all the tears I’ve been holding back are pouring out of me, hot and fast . . . It’s like I’ve taken all my sadness and wrapped it up in a package inside of me because I don’t deserve to grieve. But I can’t keep that package together anymore. The strings that bound it are fraying and snapping, and it’s all spilling out.”
― Natalie C. Anderson, Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday