The Bridge to Lucy Dunne Quotes

“No one is guaranteed happiness. It's not a human right. It's a house you have to build yourself. Your family and friends can help, but they're all busy building their own houses too. You're just bitter because you built a shit house.”
― Exurb1a, The Bridge to Lucy Dunne

“In the beginning there was Nothing but Nothing is unstable so Something came about.”
― Exurb1a, The Bridge to Lucy Dunne

“Don't be so foolish to believe empires are built on stone. They're on bamboo stilts at best.”
― Exurb1a, The Bridge to Lucy Dunne

“Let them be brave, the old man thought, a prayer to no one in particular – whoever they are, my great grandchildren – let them be brave so they might look back upon this planet from a distant star one day and have forged their own, better place. Let them be brave so they might choose Compassion over Stupidity each and every time. Let their genes hum with the Insatiable Need to Know That Which They Don't Know Yet. God, let them be better than us at the very least.”
― Exurb1a, The Bridge to Lucy Dunne

“Until that hungry black god eats me up. Now I spend the centuries circling into it like a penny in one of those coin spirals at an arcade;”
― Exurb1a, The Bridge to Lucy Dunne

“You're just selfish,” she says.
“Go fuck yourself,” he says quietly.
“You said you'd be nice.”
“I'm not selfish.”
“Sure you are. You love everything for as long as it's easy then as soon as you have to actually empathise with another human being you get claustrophobic.”
― Exurb1a, The Bridge to Lucy Dunne

“Happy people are just miserable people you don't know well enough,”
― Exurb1a, The Bridge to Lucy Dunne

“Two weeks of false starts, of too much cloud cover, of strong wind, of last minute mechanical doubts.”
― Exurb1a, The Bridge to Lucy Dunne

“A dog might present you with some of his finest poops, but I doubt you'd award him the Pulitzer.”
― Exurb1a, The Bridge to Lucy Dunne

“The world is not a mechanical place, sir, whatever you might think. Sprites and wizards do not exist, in this universe at least. But there are beautiful truths to the world positioned so closely to your face that you have failed to see them your entire life. If you wish it, I will show them to you.”
“Heaven,” Barnett said quickly. “Will I go there?”
“No.”
“What is it then?” he whispered. “Just black?”
“Darker than that, sir. Two minutes and two seconds.”
― Exurb1a, The Bridge to Lucy Dunne