Prisoners Quotes

“as long as it’s coffee. It can be unfair trade, sprayed with every toxic chemical known to man, genetically engineered from sawdust and sarin gas, harvested by child slave labor, and brewed in the skins of the innocent, so long as it’s not decaf.”
― Robert J. Crane, Prisoners

“Authoritarians want you to follow the rules. Strict rules, in the case of a real authoritarian, too strict, ones that make society … tyrannical. Maybe unlivable. But a totalitarian … they want you to be a puppet. A slave. No action taken without their leave, nothing done without their grace.”
― Robert J. Crane, Prisoners

“A Lannister always pays their debts!”
― Robert J. Crane, Prisoners

“It takes flight in the form of passion in youth, worry in middle age, and regret among the old.”
― Robert J. Crane, Prisoners

“People build sandcastles every day—and homes, and lives and all manner of things. And they don’t build them because they’re going to last forever. Nothing does. Some day, our sun will burn out, our planet will die, and long before even that happens everything we are and have done will have been forgotten. As long as you might live, you won’t be anything but dust by the time the earth comes to its natural end … but people build anyway. They do it for the day, because we’re here now, and because in this moment it shows that these are the things that matter to us. That are important to us. Beauty doesn’t last, and neither does life … and neither does your work.” He leaned forward, and I saw him smile. “But just because a thing doesn’t last forever doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. This quest to protect people … you don’t do it because it’ll ‘echo in eternity’— to steal a phrase from Russell Crowe in Gladiator.”
― Robert J. Crane, Prisoners

“You are like one of those politicians making their calculation at a distance, consoling yourself by saying, “You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet,” while overlooking that it’s not your eggs that are being broken, and the peoples’ whose it is aren’t getting the damned omelet.”
― Robert J. Crane, Prisoners

“Fair fights were bad for your health.”
― Robert J. Crane, Prisoners