30 Quotes by M.R. Carey

Pritchard tutted. "Justice? Justice is even more problematic than truth. It's an emergent property of a very complicated system.

Some things become true simply by being spoken. When she said to the little girl “I’m here for you”, the architecture of her mind, her definition of herself, shifted and reconfigured around that statement. She became committed.

Anything you can do, I can do better.

Nothing goes on forever. If it did, there wouldn't be anything else, would there?

One to untie me, the other to point the gun at me. That’s how many it takes.

But the future is uncertain, and he can't get up enough enthusiasm even to masurbate.

No amount of expertly choreographed PR could prevail, in the end, against Armageddon. It strolled over the barricades and took its pleasure.

He'd stopped cutting when he went to university because he'd become afraid that he would never be able to form a relationship with another human being that was as meaningful as the one he had with his own skin and the blood that flowed underneath it.

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.