“You've got that motherly concern in your eyes, Jean. I must look like I'm hammered as shit," said Locke.
"Actually you look like you were executed last week.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
"Actually you look like you were executed last week.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“You return to that earlier time armed with the present, and no matter how dark that world was, you do not leave it unlit. You take your adult self with you. It is not to be a reliving, but a rewitnessing.”
― Warlight
― Warlight
“Humans’ preoccupation with ‘being happy’ was something he had never been able to figure out. No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“Parents also seriously underestimate the extent of depression in their adolescent children.”
― Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
― Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
“All you can do, Rosemary – all any of us can do – is work to be something positive instead. That is a choice that every sapient must make every day of their life. The universe is what we make of it. It’s up to you to decide what part you will play.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
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