“Cooper walked, slow and steady, four-four time in a world gone off measure.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“see them.” “They’re asleep.” “Can I pop in anyway?” “Sure,” she said. “I just” — Marcus Sakey Asleep Copy Share Image
“To learn the true value of something, all you had to do was lose it.” — Marcus Sakey Education Copy Share Image
No matter how long you spend at creation, you're always a student. — Marcus Sakey Creation Copy Share Image
“And difference, as he learned that day, inspired a particular kind of savagery.” — Marcus Sakey Savagery Copy Share Image
“That’s insane,” said a goateed kid in front of Ethan. “You’re locking down the whole city to catch a couple of terrorists?… — Marcus Sakey Terrorists Copy Share Image
“That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally. From a certain perspective, the fear was more destructive than… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“The lobby was at once attractive and bleak, a place meant to impress without creating the desire to linger.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“you are going to find that the heights you’ve attained make for a long fall if you don’t understand the mountain.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“He had a theory going about cities, that the dominant industry of the town filtered into every level of the place, from… — Marcus Sakey Architecture Copy Share Image
“The rats that had once fouled their food became their food. But soon the rats were gone.” — Marcus Sakey Food Copy Share Image
“I see the method in your madness, but there’s too much madness in your method.” — Marcus Sakey Madness Copy Share Image
“He’d died before she moved to Chicago, but she’d followed the story of his shooting with the same queasy horror as the… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
Once I came to really understand the mechanics of three-act structure, my life got a great deal easier. It doesn't tell you… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“There was a rumor—a joke? Hard to tell at the DAR—that the fluorescent bulbs were the result of a multimillion-dollar program specially… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“on; he might not be too late after all. The rain had picked up, and Cooper hurried up the walkway, still wishing… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“knew what you meant.” “Think about it, Will. That was the end. We’ve seen the whole span, beginning to end. Life to… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“Jesus, yes. I was educated by nuns. Long ago, when I was a human girl. I learned the Bible, studied the verses,… — Marcus Sakey Bible Copy Share Image
“baggage. You can get a fresh start.” “Yeah. Until the brother of someone I killed sets my house on fire. No, if… — Marcus Sakey Baggage Copy Share Image
“The secret to the game is that beginners—actually, intermediate players, too, and sometimes masters—they tend to look at just the one side.… — Marcus Sakey Chess Copy Share Image
“No, I’m talking about undiscovered science. A thousand years ago, people believed the earth was flat. Five hundred years ago, doctors thought… — Marcus Sakey Nature Copy Share Image
“Cooper had been at a scene once where a car had collided with an agent and pinned him against a metal barrier,… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“Here’s the thing about freedom: Freedom is not a couch. It’s not a television, or a car, or a house. It’s not… — Marcus Sakey Every single day Copy Share Image
“Cooper had a theory about personality. Most people considered personality to be a singular identity. Malleable, sure, but essentially cohesive. But he… — Marcus Sakey Personality Copy Share Image
Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“So why can’t we see people?” “Because they’re there, and we’re here. They’re creating the sound, we’re living in the echo. There… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“What about the guy at the restaurant who tried to kill you? Is he a villain?” “Yes,” Cooper said. “He is. He’s… — Marcus Sakey Bad guy Copy Share Image
“The scientist in him imagined the scientist in her; he sometimes pictured Violet as a tiny being in the cockpit of a… — Marcus Sakey Science Copy Share Image
“Maybe a different job, though. Something boring, so no one asks follow-up questions about it.” “Accounting?” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“It was like that old riddle about replacing the handle of an axe, and later the head—when you were done, was it… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the… — Marcus Sakey Books Copy Share Image
“Truth is a slippery concept.” “No, the great thing about the truth is that it’s true.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“among them Senator Blake Crouch (D-Colo.), who last year became the first gifted member of the US Senate.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“The problem with the best moment in your life is that every other moment is worse” — Marcus Sakey Life Copy Share Image
“bottoms and a worn T-shirt with a Greenpeace logo. Natalie’s feet were bare, her hair pulled into a ponytail. She smiled at… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“. . . the problem with looking for your glasses is that you don’t have your glasses on while you’re looking . . .” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“But not a flag worshipper. He cared about the principles, not the symbol.” “That’s what patriotism means. The others are just fetishists.” — Marcus Sakey Flag Copy Share Image
“Maybe the world would burn. But if truth was all it took to start the fire, maybe it needed to.” — Marcus Sakey Fire Copy Share Image
“As many times as Hell had been created, history stood as indisputable proof that the mass of humanity was good. People built… — Marcus Sakey History Copy Share Image
