Charlie Human Quotes

#1. There's only one person in Cape Town who deals with finding the weird,' he says. 'You need to see Jackie Ronin.

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#2. In the end, we're all just victims of our perceptions.

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#3. I grin back and breathe in the sweet smell of sweat, whiteboard marker and fear. The smells of high school.

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#4. Even having saved the world doesn't make me feel good about myself. Perhaps it's something you get habituated to; each new world-saving moment has to be bigger and better than the last to give you that same dopamine and serotonin kick. Maybe heroes are just junkies.

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#5. The world is totally screwed. I may have saved it, but nobody is going to thank me or reward me for that. I thought I'd feel some sense of satisfaction that I'd done the right thing. But I don't really. Being a hero is pretty damn stupid.

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#6. There are questions that run through your head when you find out that you're a serial killer.

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#7. Shiver me clitoris, that's an evil vessel,' Severance says.

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#8. The world is as I always intuited it to be: weird, fractured and full of monsters.

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#9. And me? Well, I don't aspire to be king. That's just like being a highly paid pawn. I'm a bishop, a vizier. I'm always behind the scenes pulling the strings.

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