Alex London > Quotes

“Destiny is just the inevitable result of choice, from the choices that came before us to the choices we make. They are a river that can only flow in one direction.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“Nature cannot be reprogrammed forever. Humans are not meant to run like software. You cannot hack the human condition.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“He found that worry was a completely renewable resource. The more he had, the more he got.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“The only people who couldn't understand the brutal lengths others would go to for money were the people who'd never been without it.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“Laugh a little Syd," Knox said. "Life is too short for perpetual misery.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?”
― Alex London, Proxy

“Honesty was its own kind of peace.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“Being alive and living aren't the same.”
― Alex London, Guardian

“We should all get a little forgiveness—without it, there can be no kindness.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“I believe you, Knox...And I don't care...Got it? I believe you're sorry. I. Don't. Care. I don't want your sorry. Live with your guilt. It's the one debt you owe me and I don't ever, ever want it repaid.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“I'd burn the world down if it would make you smile”
― Alex London, Guardian

“Some things are more important that any one person.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“In the end, someone would have to pay for it. Everything costs.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“Nothing mystical about destiny. Destiny is just the inevitable result of choice, from the choices that came before us to the choices we make. They are a river that can only flow in one direction.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“I’d rather live in a world where I get to love the moon than in one where I don’t, even if the moon won’t return the feeling.”
― Alex London, Black Wings Beating

“He grinned and then pulled Syd's face to him, pressing their lips together. At first Syd flinched, then he relaxed and let his hands fall to Knox's side. The battle around them vanished, the world that was nd the world to come, all disappeared for one instant as their lips held on to one another.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“It's not easy to throw your life away, even for a good reason, even when it's the right thing to do. It was simple enough. Debt or no: Syd did not want to die.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“It was good to be admired for something. Everyone should feel that way sometimes, he thought.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“Of course, it made no sense. The goat couldn't object or agree. The goat couldn't forgive. The goat didn't even know what was happening. Only humans could accept responsibility, and only humans could take on a debt. Only humans could stand in for one another...A goat would always be a goat, but humans can change how they define one another and how they define themselves. That was civilization.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“Caring costs.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.”
― Alex London, Guardian

“A life for a life. All debts have to be repaid.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“His proxy turned and thrashed in his sleep, but Knox didn't wake him. His dreams, like everyone Else's, were his own. So were his nightmares.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“Civilization without humanity was just a graveyard”
― Alex London, Guardian

“It´s your life. Choose”
― Alex London, Guardian

“How do you know it's a him?" Abel asked. "He's not wearing his pronouns on a name tag."

"Male Sunrise Reapers have orange eyes," Roa said. "Females have red or yellow."

"But what if he's nonbinary?" Abel wondered. "And we've offended him."

"Then he'll eat us." Roa considered it. "I can respect that.”
― Alex London, City of Thieves

“Guilt. That might have been the only purely human feeling Knox had left.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“Then he pulled Liam forward and pressed their lips together. The kiss was no longer than a second, but in that second, any walls between them fell. Liam's body was Syd's body; Syd's mind was Liam's mind. someones eyelashes tickled and they drew apart”
― Alex London, Guardian

“This is bigger than you," said Mr. Baram. "You can bring down this whole system. Erase the data that enslaves so many. Jubilee. Freedom. Forgiveness. Is that not enough?”
― Alex London, Proxy

“Great poems know more than their poets, but they cannot exist without them.”
― Alex London, Black Wings Beating