The Laws of the Skies Quotes

“When no decision can be made, we go along with the decisions of those we trust, and if there is no one to trust, we follow the ones we love.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“Don’t you ever want to start over? To go back to being the child our children are today and make choices other than the ones we made? Good or bad, just other choices.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“Before you become an adult, everything is off limits, and, once you become one, you aren’t allowed to do anything because you have to be responsible. When in life are we finally free? For good?”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“Even he who deserves to die, who deserves to be killed, doesn't deserve to be killed like that.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“We are all children, they thought, and none of us is equipped to deal with such an adversary.
We go through life under other people's protection.
We listen to instructions and try to follow them.
We don't know what's true and what's not. What's fair and unfair.
Our world is small. Our world is narrow.
We do as we are told.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“And there you have it. The children were on their way. They would never return.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“Once again, between the century-old tree trunks, the nocturnal fauna heard a cry ring out, made by a small human, the wunderkind of the animal kingdom, master of fire and metal, but just as fragile when it collided with the laws of physics and the cosmos.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“There is no time in what you are going through. Your suffering is a place, and you don't know whether you can ever leave this place. You don't even have enough hope to wish that it be over faster. Faster doesn't exist, any more than time itself. You are not alive enough to measure it. You live in a present of incessant pain.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“Was there nothing left in this world that was worth opening your eyes and fighting for? Would the bad guys always win? Are our efforts to live in peace simply doomed to failure? Will the bad guys always be bad guys? Will the good guys spend their whole lives taking punches and throwing rocks into the water with all of their might and getting nothing more in return than a ridiculous sploosh and the shame of failure?”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“Was there nothing left in this world that was worth opening your eyes and fighting for?”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“But now that day had broken, nothing had changed, no one had rescued them, and the possibility that that was how it would be the whole day, whole night, and all the other days, and all the other nights, had started to eat away at him right there, in his chest, at that blue place where tears are born and hope dies.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“But she was in love, head over heels in love the way you are at age six, without knowing that this love would be as fleeting as it was
powerful, and as powerful as it was secret, and misunderstood, an attachment, an obsession that Oceane had never called, nor would ever call `love'.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“because it was him and him alone she didn't want to disappoint.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

“Without looking back or checking with each other, they plunged into the darkness of the woods, because there was no darkness scarier than the one about to give chase.”
― Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies