“I’m fighting and I’m winning and I’m living. The full package.”
“Yeah,’ said Blue quietly. ‘World peace and free Wi-Fi.”
“He’s also a dick,’ said Achilleus to a scattering of laughter. Maxie saw that even Nicola was trying to hide a smile.”
“After Arran died we could've fallen apart. But we didn't. Because you held it together. "Arran Lives" - you remember that?"
"I remember."
"He lived in you, Max. You done well. I like you. You're cool.”
“You’re gonna really scare them grown-ups, Paddy,’ said Achilleus. ‘They’ll be filling their nappies in fright.”
“I was the hero, Roberto De Niro, William Shakespearo! Walking on the beaches, looking at the peaches.”
“Then maybe I’ll sneak into Buckingham Palace and slit his chicken throat one night.”
“Well, there’s a shitstorm coming, Hayden. And we’re going to be right in the middle of it.”
“Everything was deathly quiet. The eyes were the most terrifying: the eyes of dinosaurus; the eyes of trilobites and ants; the eyes of birds and butterflies; the eyes of bacteria... The humans alone possessed one hundred billion pairs of eyes, equal to the number of stars in the Milky Way, Among them were the eyes of ordinary men and women, and the eyes of Da Vinci, Shakespeare, and Einstein.”
“You always assume we must have fallen, that we were thrown out of Heaven. Some of us just jumped.”
“That's what nobody realizes. Two seconds are huge. It's the difference between something happening and something not happening. You could take one step too many and fall over the edge of a cliff. It's very dangerous.”
“If you’re ready,” I say, wiping my eyes while he blows his nose, “we should head to the funeral home. Do you think they allow dogs in there?”
“Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace.”
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