The Crossing Quotes

“We could do nothing to stop the towers from falling. We could do nothing to stop the workplaces from being shot up. And when the shootings spilled out of the office buildings and into the schools, we could do nothing to stop that either. The government began watching everyone because we had given them permission.”
― Jason Mott, The Crossing: A Novel

“Art only ever goes as far as we are willing to take it.”
― Jason Mott, The Crossing: A Novel

“It’s human nature not to trust intelligence.”
― Jason Mott, The Crossing: A Novel

“But then I stopped laughing at his jokes and so he stopped telling them and I got to see him smile less and less often because, no matter how much I wanted to, I couldn’t smile. Somewhere along the way I had forgotten how and, in doing so, I had stolen my brother’s laughter.”
― Jason Mott, The Crossing: A Novel

“Hope,” she said, “is just imagination put into practice.”
― Jason Mott, The Crossing: A Novel

“Children, in the end, were gods of our own design. And when you couldn’t build your own god, you called social services and had one delivered.”
― Jason Mott, The Crossing: A Novel

“On your birth certificate, forever and ever, it will say that you were born on September 11, 2001. But it will never explain to you ow things were before that day. It will never tell you how your parents cried as they watched the world change on the day their children were born. We wept for the dead and the living, because we knew nothing would ever be the same. The two of you would never know the world as we did. And there was nothing we could do about it. From the day you were born, we knew the extent of our own powerlessness.”
― Jason Mott, The Crossing: A Novel