“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who profits and who suffers, but from the silent acknowledgement that under a free market economy the many victims of the greed of the few are still better off than those under the utopian socialism of the well-intended. It is a hard thing for the poor to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it. (p.272)”
― Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
― Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
“Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone. I’d never live it down.”
― Light
― Light
“You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.”
― I Wrote This For You
― I Wrote This For You
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