City of Miracles Quotes

“My definition of an adult is someone who lives their life aware they are sharing the world with others. My definition of an adult is someone who knows the world was here before they showed up and that it'll be here well after they walk away from it.

My definition of an adult, in other words, is someone who lives their life with a little fucking perspective.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back and see it was full of treasures.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“If one were to protest all the injustices of life,” says Sigrud, “great and small, one would have no time for living.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“But freedom and human happiness has a direct relationship to the number of people who have power over their own world, their own lives. Far too many people still have no say in how they live.

The more power is dispersed, the more that will change.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“It is a fool who lives his life believing the waves upon which he sails shall remember him. The seas know nothing. This makes them beautiful. And this makes them terrible. —DREYLING PROVERB, ORIGIN”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“And then he understands: it’s a loop, an endless loop of injured children, growing old but keeping their pain fresh and new, causing yet more injury and starting the whole cycle over again.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“Just once, he thinks, I would like to think of a solution that does not involve me nearly blowing myself up.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.”
― Robert Jackson bennett, City of Miracles

“In my operational days, there were three ways of thinking about things. There were things you knew. Then there were things you knew you didn’t know. And then there were the things you didn’t know that you didn’t know.” “No wonder we keep having so many international crises,” she says, “if you lot are running around talking like that.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“Change is a slow flower to bloom. Most of us will not see its full radiance. We plant it not for ourselves, but for future generations.

But it is worth tending to. Oh, it is so terribly worth tending to.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“One should not seek ugliness in this world. There is no lack of it. You will find it soon enough, or it will find you.” Taty”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“xxx it feels to me that...that death is but a thunderstorm. Just wind and noise. You can't ask meaning of such a thing. Not even of your own.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“You asked me if I wanted to forget. The answer’s no. I want to keep it. Even if it hurts.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“All political careers end in failure. Some careers are long, some are short. Some politicians fail gracefully, and peacefully—others, less so. But beloved or hated, powerful or weak, right or wrong, effective or irrelevant—eventually, eventually, all political careers end in failure.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“My definition of an adult is someone who lives their life aware they are sharing the world with others. My definition of an adult is someone who knows the world was here before they showed up and that it’ll be here well after they walk away from it. My definition of an adult, in other words, is someone who lives their life with a little fucking perspective.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“But that day is tomorrow. And right now, today, there is at least a hot cup of tea.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“All things are subservient to time.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“Power doesn't change. It just changes clothes.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“A better world comes not in a flood, but with a steady drip, drip, drip.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“People don’t change. Nations don’t change. They get changed. Reluctantly. And not without a fight.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“There’s a clunk from down the porch. Sigrud can’t lift his head to see, but Restroyka sits up, alarmed. “Dear, I thought I told you to go back in and stay in the house!”
“You also told me to fetch another cord of wood,” says a voice, low and sullen. “Those are two contradictory orders, Auntie.”
Sigrud frowns. Auntie?
“I don’t like you being out of the house,” says Restroyka. “If someone skulking around in the trees out there took some potshot at you and got lucky, I’d never forgive myself!”
“Unless the sheep have rebelled and taken up sharpshooting, I suspect we’re quite safe here.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“One should not seek ugliness in this world. There is no lack of it. You will find it soon enough, or it will find you.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“If men can do anything, anything in the world, they’ll do war first. [...]”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“I will be different.”

“How many tragedies follow those words,” [...].”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“I am cursed,” says Mulaghesh, “with an abundance of things I wish to say, as we are well aware, Prime Minister.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“an elderly gentleman in Brost can make glass directly from sand just by having an argument with it;”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“Но ее лицо искажено от печали и скорби, щеки мокры от слез: она создание, пусть и Божественное, но достигшее самых глубин отчаяния.
Это ему знакомо. Он сам выглядел так же, когда потерял своего отца, семью, дочь, подругу.
И в этот момент Сигруд понимает: это петля, бесконечная петля искалеченных детей, которые вырастают, но берегут свою боль, сохраняя ее свежей и новой, причиняя еще больше травм и начиная весь цикл заново.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“He probes at the edges of the world, feeling the distortions. Dilations. Contractions. Dangling tumefactions drifting through reality. Distended veins running through space and time.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“She stares at him for a long time, hands on her mouth, tears silently running down her cheeks, the sound of birdsong in her ears. Then she sniffs and nods.

"All right," she says. "All right.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“In Navashtra, in Saypur, a young girl obeys a strange impulse and sings a song to the stones in a nearby quarry. She and the rest of her family, who are picnicking nearby, stare in fear and confusion as the stones slowly roll down the slopes to spell the words: THANK YOU, THAT WAS LOVELY.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles