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“It’s impossible to create a safe place for people to go, because it becomes unsafe when people go there.”
“Gary’s a necromancer. His entire life looks like it’s airbrushed on the side of a van.”
He had tarnished silver hair and deep frown lines, but he was not so old that his mobility was affected. He didn’t walk slowly because he was forced to. He walked slowly to force others to.
Like a stream of urine, an aggressive child can be amusing when it’s aimed at someone else.
Like any group that accepts pretty much anybody, the membership of the Bastards was made up entirely of young males who felt worthless and powerless—guys who look at the creatures wriggling around in the mud and think, He thinks he’s better than me.
That’s what makes reality reality, the fact that it just keeps being true no matter how much you argue with it.”
“Everybody lies to children, even their parents. The day a child realizes that is the day they start becoming an adult.”
It’s like it thinks I’m beneath contempt, and it really wants to eat me. Like I’m both food and garbage. Then it struck Tyler. That’s probably the expression I have on my face when I look at a Big Mac.
“So you’ve been using people’s fears and beliefs to fool them into being honest with you, and to motivate them into resisting all of their baser instincts and lazy, selfish habits so that they’ll do what they know in their hearts is the right thing to begin with.”
It perfectly illustrated the idea that a long series of obvious solutions can lead to an improbable result.
“Good plans almost never contain the word somehow.”
