“Being alive and living aren't the same.”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
“I'd burn the world down if it would make you smile”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
“Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
“Then he pulled Liam forward and pressed their lips together. The kiss was no longer than a second, but in that second, any walls between them fell. Liam's body was Syd's body; Syd's mind was Liam's mind. someones eyelashes tickled and they drew apart”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
“Civilization without humanity was just a graveyard”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
“Those who were defiant, like Marie, would defy until they dropped dead. The maudlin would weep and the deal makers would bargain and the jokers would joke, but every last one of them would die.”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
“At the birth of a new world, there will be always pain.”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
“A man with success had interests to protect. A man with nothing was far more dangerous.”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
“He let Liam stand in front of him so he could lean on his bodyguard's shoulder. It was hard to stay standing...”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
“Every revolution believes it can return something that has been lost, but nothing is ever the same. The only thing that edures are people.”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
“The moment my son died my own heartbeat turned against me”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
“He was a real-life soldier playing soldier from his memories of made up soldiers.”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
“They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
“Remaking the world wasn't always a stage show and a cheering crowd. Politics was just warfare by other means. The losers didn't get to hold rallies.”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
“Again, Syd had that feeling, the past as an echo, repeating itself as it faded. The poor had longed for Jubilee to save them from the powerful, and now the one-time patrons longed for the Machine to do the same. Every revolution believes it can return something that had been lost, but nothing is ever the same. The only thing that endures are people. Syd saw that clearly now, and perhaps so too did Marie. You could serve a revolution, an idea that ended up an echo if itself, or you could serve people, with their maddening contradictions. You couldn't serve both. You had to choose.”
― Alex London, quote from Guardian
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“Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. Conqueror of Psychlos.' Brown Limper spat on the bill.
He suddenly seized the bill and tore it frantically into little pieces.
Then he threw the pieces around with angry gestures.
After that he gathered them all up again and, with a set, malevolent expression on his face, burned them.
Then he pulverized the ashes with his fist. But somebody came in soon after and said with a delighted smile, “Have you seen the new bank note?” And waved one!
Brown Limper rushed out of the room and found a place to vomit.”
― L. Ron Hubbard, quote from Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
“Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.”
― Stephanie Osborn, quote from The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival
“The history of the twentieth century, he pointed out, is replete with instances of the tragedy that overtakes democracy when a leader who has risen to power on the crest of a popular wave or with the support of a democratic organisation becomes a victim of political narcissism and is egged on by a coterie of unscrupulous sycophants who use corruption and terror to silence opposition and attempt to make public opinion an echo of authority. The Congress as an organisation dedicated to democracy and socialism has to combat such trends.”
― Ramachandra Guha, quote from India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
“People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.”
― Dan Ariely, quote from Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
“I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.”
― Mary Hoffman, quote from City of Masks
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