“I do want to claim extenuating circumstances,” Asano acknowledged, his tone weary but amused. “But there’s only so many times every city you visit can blow up before people think you’re blowing up cities.”
“People always want to know things . . . until they hear them, and then it's too late. Knowledge is a rug of a certain size, and the world is larger. It's not what remains uncovered at the edges that should worry you, rather what is swept beneath.”
― Red Sister
― Red Sister
“All the world and more has rushed eternity’s length to reach this beat of your heart, screaming down the years. And if you let it, the universe, without drawing breath, will press itself through this fractured second and race to the next, on into a new eternity. Everything that is, the echoes of everything that ever was, the roots of all that will ever be, must pass through this moment that you own. Your only task is to give it pause—to make it notice.”
― Red Sister
― Red Sister
“They expect her to run. They know she will run. And she does. But at them.”
― Red Sister
― Red Sister
“I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It’s in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made.”
― Red Sister
― Red Sister
“There are some things that must be done quickly or not at all. If someone asks you if you love them you cannot hesitate. There are some paths that must be taken at speed.”
― Red Sister
― Red Sister
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