166 Quotes by Robert Jackson Bennett

A struck match sounds like a kiss in the dark, sometimes.

In retrospect they might have started sleeping together solely out of conversational exhaustion.

I wish I did not know some parts of the past; I wish they had never happened. But the past is the past, and someone must remember, and speak of it.

To discuss the reality of our global position is considered impolite.

Bad blood,” he said, “is still blood.

He remembers looking up in his jail cell and seeing a needle of sunlight poking through, and trying to cradle that tiny pinhole of light in his hands.

What an easy thing it is, to make Americans destroy ourselves, she thinks. You just have to make a spectacle out of it.

When the world grinds you down, you pick a handful of fires to hold close to your heart.

The choices you make will change you over time, Sancia. Make sure they don’t change you into something you don’t recognize – or you might wind up like me.