Fred’s fundamental beliefs about how the world worked—in life, there can be only one winner and everybody else is a loser (an idea that essentially precluded the ability to share) and kindness is weakness—were clear.
“She found a rich guy who didn’t want kids as much as she didn’t, and they went off and didn’t have any together.”
― Ricochet Joe
― Ricochet Joe
“Every day is for the thief, but one day is for the owner.”
― Every Day is for the Thief
― Every Day is for the Thief
“To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“The systems that could lift the majority out of poverty are undercut at every turn. Precisely because everyone takes a shortcut, nothing works and, for this reason, the only way to get anything done is to take another shortcut.”
― Every Day is for the Thief
― Every Day is for the Thief
“A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust.”
― A Clash of Kings
― A Clash of Kings
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