158 Quotes by Richard K. Morgan

The priest I didn’t talk to at all, because I didn’t want to have to hide his body afterward.

See, once upon a time,” Yavuz was saying, “fear was a unifying force. Back then, you could make a country strong with xenophobia. That’s the old model, the nation-state fortress thing. But you can’t live in a fortress when your whole way of life depends on globalized interdependence and trade. Once that happens, xenophobic tendency becomes a handicap, in Groombridge’s terms a non-adaptive trait.

Like the Sharyan resistance in general, they weren’t overly imaginative – which in the end proved their downfall when faced with the Envoys – but they weren’t any kind of pushover, either. We’d all developed a healthy respect for their courage and combat endurance by the time we slaughtered the last of them.

There are no alternatives. You live with what is. And you don’t let your ghosts rent room in your head.

Like all lotteries, it was an attempt to distract and dilute labor force discontent with irrational hope.

It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat’s maze poorly.

I walked beside the woman I had killed last week and tried to hold up my end of a conversation about cats. There.

I am home, you soggy-faced, entitled little prick, he barely stopped himself saying. You think it took northern sorcery to make me the way I am now? You think it took a war? Those things were tonic compared to what came before. Desperation and deception were waiting for me at the nursery door, took me by either hand as I walked out into my youth, have been my constant companions since.

We live in bloodbath times... and looks like tonight is bath night.