M.R. Carey

Quotes

• “Stock was a rationalist and an atheist. Most of the time she saw the world as a big machine where things just played the...”
• “It all comes together inside her, and she can’t begin to explain. “It’s just a pattern,” she says, feeling bad because i...”
• “Melanie understands jealousy. She’s jealous, a little bit, every time Miss Justineau talks to another boy or girl in cla...”
• “And one of the reasons why he likes her is because she’s so different from him. She’s as big as four-fifths of five-eigh...”
• “In most stories she knows, children have a mother and a father, like Iphigenia had Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, and Helen...”
• “Some things become true simply by being spoken. When she said to the little girl “I’m here for you”, the architecture of...”
• “Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved. You've already stopped being the person who had the dre...”
• “Even the air seems to have a smell - earthy and rich and complicated, made out of things living nd things dying and thin...”
• “Because the bag is full of colours - starbursts and wheels and whorls of dazzling brightness that are as fine and comple...”
• “Jess wasn't religious. Not even a little bit. She thought all gods were basically big bully-boy cops dreamed up by peopl...”
• “Holy fuck,' Corcoran said, leaning back against the wall. 'I am going home and drinking a whole bottle of Bacardi. Someo...”
• “She faces him, trying to take a breath that's long and level, trying to pull all the slopping emotions back inside so he...”
• “No amount of expertly choreographed PR could prevail, in the end, against Armageddon. It strolled over the barricades an...”
• “Loyalty is just the wheels on the bus ... meaning that it keeps things moving but it's neutral when it comes to the dire...”
• “Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appalling...”
• “Pritchard tutted. "Justice? Justice is even more problematic than truth. It's an emergent property of a very complicated...”
• “In an age of rust, she comes up stainless steel”