Runner Quotes

“...the sense that regret could be a physical thing. That it could stand behind you with its hand on your back; and that sometimes it could reach inside you and clutch your heart in its grip.”
― Patrick Lee, Runner

“The hostility they’d shown in the alley was long gone. They seemed sympathetic, if not quite regretful. Which was fine—it was stupid to regret things that had seemed necessary at the time.”
― Patrick Lee, Runner

“Why would turning off genes give someone a new ability?” he asked. Dena shrugged. “Because DNA is a mess. People call it a blueprint, but it’s more like a recipe—one that nature’s been tinkering with for a few billion years. That’s how a professor of mine described it: an old recipe, where outdated instructions get lined out instead of erased.”
― Patrick Lee, Runner