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“All his life he had wanted to be known by just one person. That’s what love was, he decided. Love was being known.”
― The City of Mirrors
― The City of Mirrors
“But sometimes when you’re too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.”
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
“Consider the species known as man. We lie, we cheat, we want what others have and take it; we make war upon each other and the earth; we harvest lives in multitudes. We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles. We may have loved, but never well enough. We never truly knew ourselves. We forgot the world; now it has forgotten us.”
― The City of Mirrors
― The City of Mirrors
“Love and war. Same coin. Different sides. I’m too wrinkled for either.” “Maybe war will breathe some life into your old bones.” “Well, I tried love last month.” He leans close. “Didn’t work like it used to.”
― Golden Son
― Golden Son
“That was the heart of the matter. A new world was coming; a new world was already here. Maybe that was what getting older taught you, when you looked in the mirror and saw the passage of time in your face, when you looked at your sleeping daughter and saw the girl you once were and would never be again. The world was real and you were in it, a brief part but still a part, and if you were lucky, and maybe even if you weren’t, the things you’d done for love would be remembered.”
― The City of Mirrors
― The City of Mirrors
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