Christopher Pike · 594 pages
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“You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly”
“When you are in love you know no fear or hatred. when you are fearful there is no possibility of love or hatred. And when there is hate, there is only hate.”
“death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.”
“Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.”
“Then you should have never been born”
“A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.”
“Suddenly I felt the weight of shattered dreams.”
“God is God. His name doesn’t matter.”
“But centuries of time have not made me insensitive”
“There is no sun, but a hundred blazing blue stars,each shimmering in a long river of nebulous cloud. The air is warm, pleasant,fragrant with the perfume of a thousand invisible flowers.”
“we were here to become like God. To live like his blessed son. We just needed a few pints of Christ's blood to do so.”
“In the heart are three emotions—I felt them then: love, fear, and hatred. I could see that an individual could only have one of the three at a time.”
“Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves. ”
“Sometimes I catch myself trying to remember the last time I had meaningful physical contact with another person, just a hug or a heartfelt squeeze of my hand, and my heart twitches.”
“Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm.”
“I've been waiting a long time to run tests on someone like you, " he said to Daemon, voice high-pitched.
Daemon arched a brow. "Another fanboy. I have them everywhere."
I muttered, "Only you would see that as a good thing."
He shot me a grin.”
“But even friendship like our heroes'
Exist no more; for we've outgrown
All sentiments and deem men zeroes--
Except of course ourselves alone.
We all take on Napoleon's features,
And millions of our fellow creatures
Are nothing more to us than tools...
Since feelings are for freaks and fools.
Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions
And on the whole despised mankind,
Yet wasn't, like so many, blind;
And since each rule permits exceptions,
He did respect a noble few,
And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.”
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