The Collected Works Volume One Quotes

“A country is legislation, specifically designed to restrict your freedom, intellectual and physical. A country exists to make you a productive unit. A consumer. You’re fuel to your country’s economy. And all over the world, and all through history, people have been happy to kill, and to die for exactly that idea. For this Monty Python idea of what freedom is. ‘A government provides one freedom. It frees us from the tyranny of true choice. Modern democracy dazzles us with ephemera and calls it liberty. Meanwhile, the important decisions are made on our behalf. Partly, that’s because we long to be told what to do.”
― Neil Cross, The Collected Works Volume One: Captured, Holloway Falls, and Mr. In-Between

“My mum,’ Thomas Kintry told him, ‘when she gets really down, she churns over the past. All the things she thinks she did wrong, all the people she let down. There was this one Christmas when the turkey came out too dry; she still goes on about that bloody turkey, what a miserable Christmas day it was. And this is, like—1993 or something. But she still goes on about it. My nan was the same.”
― Neil Cross, The Collected Works Volume One: Captured, Holloway Falls, and Mr. In-Between