“Loyalty is just the wheels on the bus ... meaning that it keeps things moving but it's neutral when it comes to… — M.R. Carey Loyalty Copy Share Image
“Pretending not to see would, she believes, take her past some point of no return, past the event horizon of hypocrisy into… — M.R. Carey Black hole Copy Share Image
“I love you, Miss Justineau. I’ll be a god or a Titan for you, and save you.” — M.R. Carey Love Copy Share Image
“The universe was a badly written soap opera where every plot twist strained credibility just that little bit further.” — M.R. Carey Soap opera Copy Share Image
“Some things become true simply by being spoken. When she said to the little girl “I’m here for you”, the architecture of… — M.R. Carey Commitment Copy Share Image
“fine, dark grey strands. Like plague-flavoured candy floss, Justineau thinks.” — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“This isn’t life. It’s something that’s playing out in its own self-contained subroutine.” — M.R. Carey Life Copy Share Image
“you can't save people from the world. There's nowhere else to take them.” — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“She's in the club. The hopelessly-outnumbered-and-surrounded-by-monsters club.” — M.R. Carey Humor Copy Share Image
“She already misses Miss J, even though they’re still together. She doesn’t think she’ll ever love anyone else quite this much.” — M.R. Carey Love Copy Share Image
“It rains on the just and the unjust. Nothing you can do but turn your collar up.” — M.R. Carey Rain Copy Share Image
“It’s not just Pandora who had that inescapable flaw. It seems like everyone has been built in a way that sometimes makes… — M.R. Carey Stupid things Copy Share Image
“If he says something that isn’t true, he is bringing uncertainty into the world. He is blinding the people around him to… — M.R. Carey Truth Copy Share Image
“Knowing the date is reassuring in some way she can’t quite figure out.” — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“This gauntlet, flung down by a bullying, contemptuous universe that allowed human beings to grope their way to sentience just so it… — M.R. Carey Bullying Copy Share Image
“In a way, Melanie’s feelings about Miss Justineau have changed too, after that day. Or rather, they haven’t changed at all, but… — M.R. Carey Greek myth Copy Share Image
“A big refugee camp governed by real terror and artificially pumped-up optimism - like the bastard child of Butlins and Colditz.” — M.R. Carey Humour Copy Share Image
“But the future is uncertain, and he can't get up enough enthusiasm even to masurbate.” — M.R. Carey Dystopian-future Copy Share Image
“It's equinox, with the world balanced between winter and summer, life and death, like a spinning ball balanced on the tip of… — M.R. Carey Death Copy Share Image
“To go mad, to lose your mind, which is the only thing that’s really yours because it’s really you … That would… — M.R. Carey Psychology Copy Share Image
“He is not a politician. He’s not even somebody who weighs his words. But he is, in the end, a conformist. A… — M.R. Carey Politics Copy Share Image
“It’s like before the Breakdown people used to spend their whole lives making cocoons for themselves out of furniture and ornaments and… — M.R. Carey Books Copy Share Image
