79 Quotes by Marcus Sakey

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    Maybe that’s what love is. Believing in the best version of your partner, so they have the courage to believe it themselves.

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    Stephen King is open about the fact that he continues to learn the craft, and if King hasn’t got it figured out yet, what the hell hope have the rest of us got?

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    Cooper said nothing. “Jesus.” Quinn rubbed at his eyes. “Wait. How does this get him what he wants? Things are worse now for abnorms than ever before. The microchipping, the hate crimes, hell, every third congressman holding press conferences to say we need to lock you all up.

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    She’d always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met.

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    He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn’t like the view.

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    That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally. From a certain perspective, the fear was more destructive than the actual killing.

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    But not a flag worshipper. He cared about the principles, not the symbol.” “That’s what patriotism means. The others are just fetishists.

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    No, the great thing about the truth is that it’s true.

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    For a moment, the future threatened to swamp him, the terrifying infinity of it, like being alone in the Pacific in the middle of a starless night, all that water and time around and below him, the deepest hole in the planet sucking him down into darkness.

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