Gravity Breaker Quotes

“For the first time in my memory I felt a sense of power: an inborn power that couldn’t be stripped away, that wasn’t a function of another man’s arbitrary whims, and that set me apart from—and above—everyone else that I was aware of. A power completely independent of the social order of things. A native power. I felt truly in control of my circumstances—truly safe from the raging violence of the world—perhaps for the first time in my thirty-some years of living.”
― Jonathan R. Miller, Gravity Breaker

“Without making a conscious decision to do so, I’d already modified my bearing, my stride, and my facial expression to broadcast what I’d come to believe (through years of trial and error) were signals of civility and normalcy in the eyes of the general public. Although I was practiced at the art of adapting myself in this way, it was still frustrating—even now—to feel as though I had no real choice in the matter, especially when my focus should have been on more important things than making myself palatable to the world at large. I hated the fact that my mind contained a dedicated block of memory reserved for just this very purpose. I couldn’t help but wonder—what greater purpose could that area of my mind have served, in an ideal world, if it had been freed?”
― Jonathan R. Miller, Gravity Breaker