Next of Kin Quotes

“We spend our whole lives making connections with people who are inevitably, every time and without fail, going to leave us. Unleess we leave them first, wich might actually be worse.”
― Dan Wells, Next of Kin

“They used to worship us, Meshara—they used to worship you. The god of wisdom, the god of beginnings, the god of dreams. They chanted your name in the darkness, dancing naked around the first fires of the ancient world, and now you’re here, hiding and tired and worthless, as scared of living as you are of dying.”
― Dan Wells, Next of Kin

“Usted me preguntó si hacer las conexiones valía la pena, y le prometo: es lo único que vale la pena en el mundo.”
― Dan Wells, Next of Kin

“Estaba roto, porque la vida lo había roto.”
― Dan Wells, Next of Kin

“La guerra está llegando, lo quieras o no, y con ella viene la muerte.”
― Dan Wells, Next of Kin

“No estaba hablando con nadie, solo sentado en la esquina, esperando. Inexpresivo. Anhelaba, a veces, esa falta de sentimientos. Haría tantas cosas mucho mas sencillas.”
― Dan Wells, Next of Kin

“His words held a mixture of embarrassment and anger, the latter caused by the former. He knew he couldn’t remember anything, and he hated it; he was ashamed and embarrassed and angry at everything in the world—himself most of all, for who else could he blame? (..) He hated this place, and he wanted to get out, and after one door and one hall and one elevator, he’d forgotten it all. He was here in a place that he recognized, and it didn’t matter that he hated it because that glimmer of recognition overshadowed every other emotion. Here was something he remembered, somewhere he’d been before, and just like that, he was happy.”
― Dan Wells, Next of Kin