Alex London Quotes

#1. He got to spend another day on the earth; messed up, cruel, and dangerous as it was, it was the only place he wanted to be.

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#2. I believe you, Knox...And I don't care...Got it? I believe you're sorry. I. Don't. Care. I don't want your sorry. Live with your guilt. It's the one debt you owe me and I don't ever, ever want it repaid.

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#3. His proxy turned and thrashed in his sleep, but Knox didn't wake him. His dreams, like everyone Else's, were his own. So were his nightmares.

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#4. Those who were defiant, like Marie, would defy until they dropped dead. The maudlin would weep and the deal makers would bargain and the jokers would joke, but every last one of them would die.

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#5. Every revolution believes it can return something that has been lost, but nothing is ever the same. The only thing that edures are people.

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#6. Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.

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#7. The moment my son died my own heartbeat turned against me

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#8. Laugh a little Syd," Knox said. "Life is too short for perpetual misery.

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#9. Civilization without humanity was just a graveyard

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#10. At the birth of a new world, there will be always pain.

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#11. 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.

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#12. It's not easy to throw your life away, even for a good reason, even when it's the right thing to do. It was simple enough. Debt or no: Syd did not want to die.

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#13. He let Liam stand in front of him so he could lean on his bodyguard's shoulder. It was hard to stay standing...

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#14. He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?

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#15. Yes, he wanted to tell Krystof, it will hurt. Even if you don't get sick like them. It will hurt.

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#16. It was good to be admired for something. Everyone should feel that way sometimes, he thought.

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#17. In the end, someone would have to pay for it. Everything costs.

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#18. We should all get a little forgiveness - without it, there can be no kindness.

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#19. He was a real-life soldier playing soldier from his memories of made up soldiers.

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#20. He grinned and then pulled Syd's face to him, pressing their lips together. At first Syd flinched, then he relaxed and let his hands fall to Knox's side. The battle around them vanished, the world that was nd the world to come, all disappeared for one instant as their lips held on to one another.

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#21. Destiny is just the inevitable result of choice, from the choices that came before us to the choices we make. They are a river that can only flow in one direction.

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#22. Then he pulled Liam forward and pressed their lips together. The kiss was no longer than a second, but in that second, any walls between them fell. Liam's body was Syd's body; Syd's mind was Liam's mind. someones eyelashes tickled and they drew apart

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#23. 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.

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#24. Being alive and living aren't the same.

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#25. They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?

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#26. Nature cannot be reprogrammed forever. Humans are not meant to run like software. You cannot hack the human condition.

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#27. A life for a life. All debts have to be repaid.

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#28. ... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370)

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#29. Honesty was its own kind of peace.

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#30. This is bigger than you," said Mr. Baram. "You can bring down this whole system. Erase the data that enslaves so many. Jubilee. Freedom. Forgiveness. Is that not enough?

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#31. Knox's father shrugged. "They're children. We don't need their forgiveness.

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#32. Guilt. That might have been the only purely human feeling Knox had left.

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#33. He found that worry was a completely renewable resource. The more he had, the more he got.

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#34. I'd burn the world down if it would make you smile

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