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“We should fight crime,” the boy said. “That is what we should do.”
― Nick Harkaway, Tigerman

“It frightened me, how close violence is to the civilized surface of a human being. It wasn’t the violence itself that was the worry, it was the amount of effort they’d gone to conceal it. A Homo sapiens was a primitive hunter who had woken each day with the knowledge he could kill.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“The last days are no less important than the others just because they are near to the end.”
― Nick Harkaway, Tigerman

“No wonder they were a species of primitives. By the time they have read enough books to actually reach a state of knowledge where they can do anything with it, they are dead.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans