“The only thing you can do is love, because it is the only thing that leaves light inside you, instead of the total, obliterating darkness.”
“Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, “Why, why, why?” Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.”
― Cat's Cradle
― Cat's Cradle
“An artist's passion shouldn't create passion. An artist's supreme virtue is to be detached and cold.”
― I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
― I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
“She cries in my arms and I try not to cry. We have never said “I love you” to each other, but it doesn’t matter, I don’t think.”
― You're Not Much Use to Anyone: A Novel
― You're Not Much Use to Anyone: A Novel
“He imagined her impressed by his maturity, by his willingness to share her with another man. But this formulation was partial. It did not take into account the fact that she’d loved him, or that he’d broken her heart. It did not consider that her heart might be broken still, or that every time they slept together, it broke a little more.”
― At Night We Walk in Circles
― At Night We Walk in Circles
“Our country only exists because people believed in it, and if it wasn’t strong enough to protect us from this crisis, then what future could it ever hope to have? He knew that America wanted a Caesar, but to be one would mean the end of America. They say great times make great men. I don’t buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn’t or wouldn’t. Greed, fear, stupidity, and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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