Nabila Chowdhury’s Reviews > Ex Machina, Book Five > Status Update

""THIS IS OUR HOME, BUT AS MUCH AS I LOVE IT, AS MUCH AS MUCH AS I LOVE YOU...NEW YORK ISN'T WHERE MY STORY ENDS.""

""CHOICE IS JUST ILLUSION POWERFUL CREATE TO MAKE THE WEAK THINK THEY ARE NOT.""

""NOW WHY DON'T YOU FUCK ON BACK TO WHICHEVER LAME "MIRROR UNIVERSE" YOU CAME FROM AND LET ME GET SOME SLEEP?"

"BECAUSE I'M NOT YOUR REFLECTION, MITCHELL. I AM HE AS YOU ARE HE AS YOU ARE ME...AND WE ARE ALL TOGETHER.""

""WHEN I TURNED FORTY LAST YEAR, ALL I COULD THINK WAS, MAYBE I'VE LIVED TOO LONG. I MEAN, THERE'S A REASON MOST OF THE PEOPLE WE ADMIRE DIED YOUNG...THEY NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO FUCK EVERYTHING UP.""

"THOUGH WE CAN NEVER GUARANTEE OUR PEOPLE COMPLETE SAFETY, WE CAN SEND A MESSAGE TO THOSE WHO SEEK TO HARM THE FREE AND THE BRAVE. YOU MIGHT KNOCK US TO THE GROUND...BUT YOU SURE AS HELL WON'T KEED US THERE."

""STILL, I'M SORRY. FOR EVERYTHING. HARD TO BELIEVE A FEW DAYS AGO YOU AND I WERE HAMMER AND TONGS AMMER AND TON OVER SOMETHING AS PETTY AS A FEW HORMONE PILLS."

"BUT IT'S NOT PETTY. THINKING ABOUT CRAP LIKE THAT IS WHAT GOVERNMENT DOES BEST. IT'S THE UNTHINKABLE WE ALWAYS FUCK UP.""

""CHRIST, LISTEN TO ME. WHINING ABOUT A FEW CHARRED PHOTO ALBUMS AFTER WHAT YOU LOST.”

"I APPRECIATE THAT, BUT TRAGEDY ISN'T A COMPETITION.""

""TYPICAL POLITICIAN. ALWAYS RUNNING...NEVER GETTING ANYWHERE.""

""BUT IN THE REAL WORLD, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A NEVER-ENDING BATTLE, IS THERE? SOONER OR LATER, SOMEBODY WINS. AND EVERYBODY ELSE LOSES.""

""THAT'S WHY I LIKE SUPERHERO BOOKS. MONTH AFTER MONTH, THEY JUST KEEP GOING. SO NO MATTER WHAT TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN, YOU KNOW THERE'LL ALWAYS BE ANOTHER CHANCE FOR WRONGS TO GET RIGHTED. IT'S LIKE, WITHOUT A LAST ACT, THOSE STORIES NEVER GET TO BECOME TRAGEDIES. I GUESS THAT'S WHY THEY CALL 'EM COMICS.""