“Destiny is just the inevitable result of choice, from the choices that came before us to the choices we make. They are a river that can only flow in one direction.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“Nature cannot be reprogrammed forever. Humans are not meant to run like software. You cannot hack the human condition.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“He found that worry was a completely renewable resource. The more he had, the more he got.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“Laugh a little Syd," Knox said. "Life is too short for perpetual misery.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“The only people who couldn't understand the brutal lengths others would go to for money were the people who'd never been without it.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“We should all get a little forgiveness—without it, there can be no kindness.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“Honesty was its own kind of peace.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“Some things are more important that any one person.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“I believe you, Knox...And I don't care...Got it? I believe you're sorry. I. Don't. Care. I don't want your sorry. Live with your guilt. It's the one debt you owe me and I don't ever, ever want it repaid.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“It's not easy to throw your life away, even for a good reason, even when it's the right thing to do. It was simple enough. Debt or no: Syd did not want to die.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“Nothing mystical about destiny. Destiny is just the inevitable result of choice, from the choices that came before us to the choices we make. They are a river that can only flow in one direction.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“In the end, someone would have to pay for it. Everything costs.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“It was good to be admired for something. Everyone should feel that way sometimes, he thought.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“Of course, it made no sense. The goat couldn't object or agree. The goat couldn't forgive. The goat didn't even know what was happening. Only humans could accept responsibility, and only humans could take on a debt. Only humans could stand in for one another...A goat would always be a goat, but humans can change how they define one another and how they define themselves. That was civilization.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“He grinned and then pulled Syd's face to him, pressing their lips together. At first Syd flinched, then he relaxed and let his hands fall to Knox's side. The battle around them vanished, the world that was nd the world to come, all disappeared for one instant as their lips held on to one another.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“A life for a life. All debts have to be repaid.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“His proxy turned and thrashed in his sleep, but Knox didn't wake him. His dreams, like everyone Else's, were his own. So were his nightmares.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“Guilt. That might have been the only purely human feeling Knox had left.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“This is bigger than you," said Mr. Baram. "You can bring down this whole system. Erase the data that enslaves so many. Jubilee. Freedom. Forgiveness. Is that not enough?”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“Know must look the same. He'd never thought he'd be someone with tired eyes. Never thought, he'd stare across a fire at a girl who had them, a girl who'd lied to him and insulted him and, really, when it came down to it, ruined his life. He never thought he'd want to keep staring at her. (The Frog Prince Story.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370)”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“Knox's father shrugged. "They're children. We don't need their forgiveness.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“(Yovel) "Jubilee," said Maire. "The day when all debts are forgiven."..."Yes," said Mr.Baram. "In the old holy books, there was a commandment that every fifty years, all debts were to be forgiven, all slaves were to be freed and all property returned. You are marked with the word of that commandment.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
“A grudge was just another debt owed.”
― Alex London, quote from Proxy
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“Legend claimed Berserkers could move with such speed that they seemed invisible to the human eye until the moment they attacked. They possessed unnatural senses: the olfactory acuity of a wolf, the auditory sensitivity of a bat, the strength of twenty men, the penetrating eyesight of an eagle. The Berserkers had once been the most fearless and feared warriors ever to walk Scotland nearly seven hundred years ago. They had been Odin's elite Viking army. Legend claimed they could assume the shape of a wolf or a bear as easily as the shape of a man. And they were marked by a common feature-unholy blue eyes that glowed like banked coals.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from To Tame a Highland Warrior
“When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell...say hello for me...”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Monstrumologist
“Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, quote from Against Nature
“Take any segment of population, impose strict yet clear definitions on their particular characteristics, then target them for compliance. Bribe the weak to expose the strong. Kill the strong, and the rest are yours. Move on to the next segment.”
― Steven Erikson, quote from Reaper's Gale
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