“But the future is uncertain, and he can’t get up enough enthusiasm even to masturbate.” — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“Maybe because she's got a crush on me, and all love is as blind as it needs to be.” — M.R. Carey Blind Copy Share Image
“admires her honesty, which turns white lies into red roadkill.” — M.R. Carey Honesty 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
“Nothing goes on forever. If it did, there wouldn't be anything else, would there?” — M.R. Carey Eternity Copy Share Image
“They think he doesn’t understand. That he can’t see. They can’t see him.” — M.R. Carey Learning Copy Share Image
“What she doesn’t like is the cruelties in his past, and in hers, over which she’ll have to crawl to get to… — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“But the future is uncertain, and he can't get up enough enthusiasm even to masurbate.” — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“She thinks: all journeys are the same journey, whether you're moving or not. And the things that look like endings are all… — M.R. Carey Journey Copy Share Image
“The world is information. An endless torrent. Whatever escapes you becomes something you will never completely understand.” — M.R. Carey 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
“Sanity is a suspended state, moored in nothing but itself. You test the ground an inch in front of you, move forward… — M.R. Carey Madness 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
“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
“You shouldn’t kill a man without being aware of the possibilities, the futures, you’re snuffing out. The younger the target, the more… — M.R. Carey Children 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
“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the… — M.R. Carey Education 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 Copy Share Image
“Melanie understands jealousy. She’s jealous, a little bit, every time Miss Justineau talks to another boy or girl in class. She wants… — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“She surges to her feet, her heart almost bursting with happiness and relief. Miss Justineau has saved her! She raises her arms… — M.R. Carey Happiness Copy Share Image
“It all comes together inside her, and she can’t begin to explain. “It’s just a pattern,” she says, feeling bad because it’s… — M.R. Carey Feeling bad Copy Share Image
“The facts are in the outside world. You can verify them with your senses or with objective tests. The truth is something… — M.R. Carey Outside world Copy Share Image
“Growing up and growing old. Playing. Exploring. Like Pooh and Piglet. And then like the Famous Five. And then like Heidi and… — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“Do we always fret about our partners’ exes? he wonders. And do we extend that to everyone they knew before they met… — M.R. Carey 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
“It’s not that she isn’t afraid. It’s just that the fear makes no difference. “It doesn’t matter,” she explains to Miss J.… — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved.” — M.R. Carey Dream Copy Share Image
“She's in the club. The hopelessly-outnumbered-and-surrounded-by-monsters club.” — M.R. Carey Humor Copy Share Image
“It’s absolutely necessary to know who you are, as the basis for knowing anything else.” — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“The truth is the truth, the only prize worth having. If you deny it, you’re only showing that you’re unworthy of it.” — M.R. Carey Truth 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
“If everyone always knows what they’re doing and acts in a perfectly rational way, how did most of world history happen?” — M.R. Carey History Copy Share Image
“If you’re going to let yourself feel anything at all, anger’s better than most of the alternatives. “Even” — M.R. Carey Anger Copy Share Image
“She is an anomaly. Anomalies explode old theories and engender new ones. They are dangerous and glorious. Greaves” — M.R. Carey Anomalies Copy Share Image
