“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 Copy Share Image
“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.… — Alex London Copy Share Image
“Laugh a little Syd," Knox said. "Life is too short for perpetual misery.” — Alex London Copy Share Image
“Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.” — Alex London Copy Share Image
“Knox's father shrugged. "They're children. We don't need their forgiveness.” — Alex London Copy Share Image
“Nothing mystical about destiny. Destiny is just the inevitable result of choice, from the choices that came before us to the choices we make.… — Alex London Copy Share Image
“The wind of the world was wild, and it mocked human expectations. But it wasn't the wind that carried you. It was the flex… — Alex London Copy Share Image
“Nature cannot be reprogrammed forever. Humans are not meant to run like software. You cannot hack the human condition.” — Alex London Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts.… — Alex London Copy Share Image
“If only life could be lived backward, we'd know the mistakes not to make,' Kylee thought, 'and instead of losing all we knew peck… — Alex London Copy Share Image
