The Bone Clocks

by David Mitchell

The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral.”

Here’s the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief.

The impossible is negotiable. What is possible is malleable.

If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker’s toss about anywhere?”

If you love and are loved, whatever you do affects others.

Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.

Some magic is merely normality that you’re not yet used to.”

I just mean … what’s real changes. If life didn’t change, it wouldn’t be life, it’d be a photograph.”