“Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.”
― Altered Carbon
― Altered Carbon
“You live that long, things start happening to you. You get too impressed with yourself. Ends up, you think you’re God. Suddenly the little people, thirty, maybe forty years old, well, they don’t really matter anymore. You’ve seen whole societies rise and fall, and you start to feel you’re standing outside it all, and none of it really matters to you. And maybe you’ll start snuffing those little people, just like picking daisies, if they get under your feet.”
― Altered Carbon
― Altered Carbon
“Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture.”
― Altered Carbon
― Altered Carbon
“... it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal.
Well, fuck them.
Make it personal.”
― Altered Carbon
Well, fuck them.
Make it personal.”
― Altered Carbon
“like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.”
― Altered Carbon
― Altered Carbon
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