Status Updates From The Bone Clocks

“I wonder if the boys are worried about my safety or just pissed off that I abandoned them…I wonder, but I don’t care.” pg.199

💭 wow, Hugo Lamb is truly heartless!

“Then what? I find I’m no longer thinking about her every waking moment. Her way of saying ‘Sort of’ or ‘This is true’ begins to grate, and the day comes when we understand that ‘All You Need Is Love’ is rather less than the whole truth. Then what?” -pg. 197

“I ask if she’s a vegetarian, having noticed that even the stock cubes are veggie. She is, and she tells me how when she was sixteen she was at her great-aunt Eilísh’s house in Ireland, ‘and this ewe walked by, bleating, and I realized, “Sweet fecking hell, I’m eating it’s children!”’ I remark how people are superb at not thinking about awkward truths.” -pg. 186

“She’s beautiful. She’s utterly herself. She’s got a red beret.” -pg.182

“Whatever I do with my life, however much power, wealth, experience, knowledge, or beauty I’ll accrue, I, too, will end up like this vulnerable old man. When I look at Brigadier Reginald Philby, I’m looking down time’s telescope at myself.” -pg. 126

‘Power is the ability to make someone do what they otherwise wouldn’t, or deter them from doing what they otherwise would.

Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers. The mad tend to crave it, many of the sane crave it, but the wise worry about it’s longterm side effects. Power is crack cocaine for your ego and battery acid for your soul.’

“I ask, ‘What do you do in all these countries?’
‘Look around. Walk. Find a cheap bed. Eat what the locals eat. Find a cheap beer. Try not to get fleeced. Talk. Pick up a few words in the local lingo. Just be there, y’know? Sometimes,’ Brubeck bites into an apple, ‘sometimes I want to be everywhere, all at once, so badly I could just…’ Brubeck mimes a bomb going off in his rib cage.” pg.38