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M.R. Carey Quote: “They are in hell, but the devil is on their side.”

51. “They are in hell, but the devil is on their side.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “But along with these scary thoughts, she also thinks: Sergeant has a name. The same way the teachers do. The same way the children do. Up until now, Sergeant has been more like a god or a Titan to Melanie; now she knows that he’s just like everyone else, even if he is scary. He’s not just Sergeant, he’s Sergeant Parks. The enormity of that change, more than anything else, is what keeps her awake until the doors unlock in the morning and the teachers come.”

52. “But along with these scary thoughts, she also thinks: Sergeant has a name. The same way the teachers do. The same way the children do. Up until now, Sergeant has been more like a god or a Titan to Melanie; now she knows that he’s just like everyone else, even if he is scary. He’s not just Sergeant, he’s Sergeant Parks. The enormity of that change, more than anything else, is what keeps her awake until the doors unlock in the morning and the teachers come.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Maybe because she’s got a crush on me, and all love is as blind as it needs to be.”

53. “Maybe because she’s got a crush on me, and all love is as blind as it needs to be.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “It was before there were any words; there were just things without names, and things without names don’t stay in your mind. They fall out, and then they’re gone.”

54. “It was before there were any words; there were just things without names, and things without names don’t stay in your mind. They fall out, and then they’re gone.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “The daytime burns with a single fire, and a lot of the time it burns fitfully. The night is a million suns exploding all at once, igniting the whole sky.”

55. “The daytime burns with a single fire, and a lot of the time it burns fitfully. The night is a million suns exploding all at once, igniting the whole sky.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time.”

56. “You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “She falters into silence, waits to be told that she’s cashiered. It will be a relief. It will all be over. She’ll have taken it as far as she can, and she’ll have lost, and they’ll send her away. It will become somebody else’s problem. Of course she’d save the kids if she could, if there was any way, but you can’t save people from the world. There’s nowhere else to take them.”

57. “She falters into silence, waits to be told that she’s cashiered. It will be a relief. It will all be over. She’ll have taken it as far as she can, and she’ll have lost, and they’ll send her away. It will become somebody else’s problem. Of course she’d save the kids if she could, if there was any way, but you can’t save people from the world. There’s nowhere else to take them.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “I just read a list of the hundred things you should do before you die. I was kind of surprised to see that shouting for help wasn’t in there.”

58. “I just read a list of the hundred things you should do before you die. I was kind of surprised to see that shouting for help wasn’t in there.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “People need to know what was done and by who. They need to know how their present grows out of this past, or else they’re no more than windblown seeds.”

59. “People need to know what was done and by who. They need to know how their present grows out of this past, or else they’re no more than windblown seeds.”

$M.R. Carey Quote: “They walk on endlessly. Time elongates, fractures, rewinds and replays in stuttering moments that – while they have no coherent internal logic – all seem drearily familiar and inevitable.”$

60. “They walk on endlessly. Time elongates, fractures, rewinds and replays in stuttering moments that – while they have no coherent internal logic – all seem drearily familiar and inevitable.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “She likes the idea of saving Miss Justineau so much that it becomes her favourite thought. She thinks about it whenever she’s not thinking about anything else.”

61. “She likes the idea of saving Miss Justineau so much that it becomes her favourite thought. She thinks about it whenever she’s not thinking about anything else.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “It’s not often our hearts sing out of tune with each other.”

62. “It’s not often our hearts sing out of tune with each other.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “People only make sense from the inside, Foss has found. And that’s if you’re lucky.”

63. “People only make sense from the inside, Foss has found. And that’s if you’re lucky.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Out of my way, Private, or your brains go public.”

64. “Out of my way, Private, or your brains go public.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Qui tacet consentire. If you don’t say no, you just said yes. He.”

65. “Qui tacet consentire. If you don’t say no, you just said yes. He.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “There is a game that old people play that is really no game at all. They look at how the world is now, and remember how it was, and those two things come more and more to seem like a hell and a heaven.”

66. “There is a game that old people play that is really no game at all. They look at how the world is now, and remember how it was, and those two things come more and more to seem like a hell and a heaven.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “But you can be led into believing a thing just by wanting it too much.”

67. “But you can be led into believing a thing just by wanting it too much.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Hungries toggle between two states. They’re frozen in place most of the time, just standing there like they’re never going to move again. Then they smell prey, or hear it, or catch sight of it, and they break into that terrifying dead sprint. No warm-up, no warning. Warp factor nine.”

68. “Hungries toggle between two states. They’re frozen in place most of the time, just standing there like they’re never going to move again. Then they smell prey, or hear it, or catch sight of it, and they break into that terrifying dead sprint. No warm-up, no warning. Warp factor nine.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Melanie realises now that she’s been told all this already. She just ignored it, ignored the self-evident logic of her world, and believed – out of the many conflicting stories she was given – only the parts she wanted to believe.”

69. “Melanie realises now that she’s been told all this already. She just ignored it, ignored the self-evident logic of her world, and believed – out of the many conflicting stories she was given – only the parts she wanted to believe.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Yesterday she thought that the hungries were like houses that people used to live in. Now she thinks that every one of those houses is haunted.”

70. “Yesterday she thought that the hungries were like houses that people used to live in. Now she thinks that every one of those houses is haunted.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “It rains on the just and the unjust. Nothing you can do but turn your collar up.”

71. “It rains on the just and the unjust. Nothing you can do but turn your collar up.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “He frigging flat-out hates frivolous, thoughtless people who dance across the surface of the world without looking down.”

72. “He frigging flat-out hates frivolous, thoughtless people who dance across the surface of the world without looking down.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time. If you’re lucky, sometimes you can even extrapolate to possible futures.”

73. “You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time. If you’re lucky, sometimes you can even extrapolate to possible futures.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Jess wasn’t religious. Not even a little bit. She thought all gods were basically big bully-boy cops dreamed up by people who wanted the laws they liked on Earth to be true everywhere else.”

74. “Jess wasn’t religious. Not even a little bit. She thought all gods were basically big bully-boy cops dreamed up by people who wanted the laws they liked on Earth to be true everywhere else.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Melanie finds this interesting in spite of herself – that you can use words to hide things, or not to touch them, or to pretend that they’re something different than they are.”

75. “Melanie finds this interesting in spite of herself – that you can use words to hide things, or not to touch them, or to pretend that they’re something different than they are.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “You have a life and then it ends and you’re dead. Living it is the point, not proving to other people that you were there. The whole thing is really just water pouring down a plughole, but that’s absolutely fine. Standing water gets stagnant.”

76. “You have a life and then it ends and you’re dead. Living it is the point, not proving to other people that you were there. The whole thing is really just water pouring down a plughole, but that’s absolutely fine. Standing water gets stagnant.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “They talk for a little while longer about the things that have happened, wrapping the violence up in careful, delicate words so it feels less horrible. Melanie finds this interesting in spite of herself – that you can use words to hide things, or not to touch them, or to pretend that they’re something different than they are. She wishes she could do that with her big secret.”

77. “They talk for a little while longer about the things that have happened, wrapping the violence up in careful, delicate words so it feels less horrible. Melanie finds this interesting in spite of herself – that you can use words to hide things, or not to touch them, or to pretend that they’re something different than they are. She wishes she could do that with her big secret.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “The world is information. An endless torrent. Whatever escapes you becomes something you will never completely understand.”

78. “The world is information. An endless torrent. Whatever escapes you becomes something you will never completely understand.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “You have a life and then it ends and you’re dead. Living it is the point, not proving to other people that you were there.”

79. “You have a life and then it ends and you’re dead. Living it is the point, not proving to other people that you were there.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “He had already learned to read, but now he learned the pleasure of stories which is like no other pleasure – the experience of slipping sideways into another world and living there for as long as you want to.”

80. “He had already learned to read, but now he learned the pleasure of stories which is like no other pleasure – the experience of slipping sideways into another world and living there for as long as you want to.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Miraculously and very suddenly the baby stops crying at this point, as though human contact was all it wanted. As though all its sorrows came down to being alone. Perhaps that’s true of everyone.”

81. “Miraculously and very suddenly the baby stops crying at this point, as though human contact was all it wanted. As though all its sorrows came down to being alone. Perhaps that’s true of everyone.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Justice? Justice is even more problematic than truth. It’s an emergent property of a very complicated system.”

82. “Justice? Justice is even more problematic than truth. It’s an emergent property of a very complicated system.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “The truth is the truth, the only prize worth having. If you deny it, you’re only showing that you’re unworthy of it.”

83. “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 Quote: “Like blood. Like something about her is wounded, and not healing, and hurting her all the time.”

84. “Like blood. Like something about her is wounded, and not healing, and hurting her all the time.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Humankind was masters of the whole world once, wasn’t they? That’s what the database says. We was masters of trees, masters of tech, masters of birds and beasts and earth and sky and everything. “And look what we did, Jon. Look what a dead-god-damned mess we made of it. The world we got now is one we builded with our own hands, and as far as I can see it’s in a pretty sorry state. That’s what comes of thinking you’re the master, and the world’s just there to serve you.”

85. “Humankind was masters of the whole world once, wasn’t they? That’s what the database says. We was masters of trees, masters of tech, masters of birds and beasts and earth and sky and everything. “And look what we did, Jon. Look what a dead-god-damned mess we made of it. The world we got now is one we builded with our own hands, and as far as I can see it’s in a pretty sorry state. That’s what comes of thinking you’re the master, and the world’s just there to serve you.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Judging is what them that listen does for them that tell, whether it’s wanted or not. But the truth is I don’t.”

86. “Judging is what them that listen does for them that tell, whether it’s wanted or not. But the truth is I don’t.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “His stomach lurches. He has a sense, for the first time in his soldiering career, of what a war crime might look like from the inside. And it’s not him who’s the criminal, or even Caldwell. It’s Justineau. And Mailer. And that drunken bastard Whitaker, and all the rest of them. Caldwell, she’s just a butcher. She’s Sweeney Todd, with a barber’s chair and a straight razor. She didn’t spend years twisting kids’ brains into pretzels.”

87. “His stomach lurches. He has a sense, for the first time in his soldiering career, of what a war crime might look like from the inside. And it’s not him who’s the criminal, or even Caldwell. It’s Justineau. And Mailer. And that drunken bastard Whitaker, and all the rest of them. Caldwell, she’s just a butcher. She’s Sweeney Todd, with a barber’s chair and a straight razor. She didn’t spend years twisting kids’ brains into pretzels.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Things don’t end, after all. They only change, and you keep changing with them.”

88. “Things don’t end, after all. They only change, and you keep changing with them.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “There can’t be any rules in the telling of stories... as to the happiness or sadness of it, that depends where you’re standing.”

89. “There can’t be any rules in the telling of stories... as to the happiness or sadness of it, that depends where you’re standing.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “The hungry kid smiles, as though the cascade of waste paper is a firework display. She squints into the sun to follow them as they fly.”

90. “The hungry kid smiles, as though the cascade of waste paper is a firework display. She squints into the sun to follow them as they fly.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “This gauntlet, flung down by a bullying, contemptuous universe that allowed human beings to grope their way to sentience just so it could put them in their place that bit more painfully.”

91. “This gauntlet, flung down by a bullying, contemptuous universe that allowed human beings to grope their way to sentience just so it could put them in their place that bit more painfully.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Gallagher looks from one of them to the other, not sure what’s going on. He’s too young to remember money. Justineau starts in on an explanation, then shakes her head and gives it up. “Why would I ruin your innocence?” she says. “There.”

92. “Gallagher looks from one of them to the other, not sure what’s going on. He’s too young to remember money. Justineau starts in on an explanation, then shakes her head and gives it up. “Why would I ruin your innocence?” she says. “There.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “The facts are in the outside world. You can verify them with your senses or with objective tests. The truth is something that people build inside their heads, using the facts as raw materials. And sometimes the facts get bent or broken in the process.”

93. “The facts are in the outside world. You can verify them with your senses or with objective tests. The truth is something that people build inside their heads, using the facts as raw materials. And sometimes the facts get bent or broken in the process.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time.”

94. “The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “They think he doesn’t understand. That he can’t see. They can’t see him.”

95. “They think he doesn’t understand. That he can’t see. They can’t see him.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “I heard her say once that though many a man was worth a tumble, there wasn’t one in a hundred was worth living with.”

96. “I heard her say once that though many a man was worth a tumble, there wasn’t one in a hundred was worth living with.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “It was a sweet apology, and furthermore I seen now how Spinner did the thing with the knife and the fork to turn Haijon’s thoughts away from the hurt she done him. I admired her cleverness in that, which was not a sly cleverness but a thoughtful and a gentle one. That Spinner could be gentle or fierce by turns whenever there was need for one or for the other was part of who she was, and part of why I loved her.”

97. “It was a sweet apology, and furthermore I seen now how Spinner did the thing with the knife and the fork to turn Haijon’s thoughts away from the hurt she done him. I admired her cleverness in that, which was not a sly cleverness but a thoughtful and a gentle one. That Spinner could be gentle or fierce by turns whenever there was need for one or for the other was part of who she was, and part of why I loved her.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Do we always fret about our partners’ exes? he wonders. And do we extend that to everyone they knew before they met us? Is it their whole past we’re jealous of, as though we want them to be born again when we walk into their lives? It’s a depressing thought. He has believed himself to be bigger than that, and a whole lot more rational.”

98. “Do we always fret about our partners’ exes? he wonders. And do we extend that to everyone they knew before they met us? Is it their whole past we’re jealous of, as though we want them to be born again when we walk into their lives? It’s a depressing thought. He has believed himself to be bigger than that, and a whole lot more rational.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “And what you got to do when the future comes is open your arms to it. For that’s where life is, and if you look for it anywhere else, you’re gonna come home empty-handed.”

99. “And what you got to do when the future comes is open your arms to it. For that’s where life is, and if you look for it anywhere else, you’re gonna come home empty-handed.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “I know this much though: anyone who talks about the right way to live, as if there was only just the one, is blind in one eye or maybe both and is not worth listening to.”

100. “I know this much though: anyone who talks about the right way to live, as if there was only just the one, is blind in one eye or maybe both and is not worth listening to.”

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