Young Blood Quotes

“Don’t fight the people you hate. Fight for the people you love, and you’ll be more dangerous than you ever dreamed possible. Fight for them”
― Andrew Barrer, Young Blood

“As for the rest of you, there’s no such thing as the End of the World. There’s only the end of the way it was. The way it will be is still up to us. So keep the faith. In spite of everything.”
― Andrew Barrer, Young Blood

“How, no matter what our trauma is, it pulls us in like a maze. So we get lost in it. And we’re all in there looking for each other, but we keep missing each other because my maze is a reflection of my trauma, and your maze is a reflection of your trauma. And it’s not until I stop looking for me, and you stop looking for you, and we start looking for each other, that the maze unfolds itself, and we get to go home together.”
― Andrew Barrer, Young Blood

“It would seem there is an inverse relationship between creature comforts and obedience.”
― Andrew Barrer, Young Blood

“When we spend too long under someone else’s thumb, we start mistaking their thumb for a Law of Nature, a law we can’t break.”
― Andrew Barrer, Young Blood

“The greatest thought went into the social makeup of Luna. We wanted Luna specimens to show negligible loyalty to religion, politics, or friendships. All specimens assigned to Luna reported no contact with family for at least two years before applying. We also preferred Luna specimens to be reasonably intelligent without being notably successful. This was all in an effort to create a community of dilettantes who moved easily in and out of relationships. A society of humans who knew each other, but not well, who had a lot to discuss, but not deeply.”
― Andrew Barrer, Young Blood

“rebellion is easy once you remember your body belongs to you and you alone.”
― Andrew Barrer, Young Blood

“Everything burns eventually. People. Places. Things. Trends. Movements. Epochs. Hypotheses. Data. Conclusions. All the knowledge we could ever hope to store in a thousand libraries in a thousand Alexandrias. It all burns. How funny. How sad.”
― Andrew Barrer, Young Blood

“opened my in-box and there it was. I didn’t sign right away, but when I finally did, I didn’t sign in blood. I signed in Helvetica.”
― Andrew Barrer, Young Blood

“Don’t fight the people you hate. Fight for the people you love, and you’ll be more dangerous than you ever dreamed possible. Fight for them . . . even if they’re gone.”
― Andrew Barrer, Young Blood

“fascination”
― Andrew Barrer, Young Blood

“That’s a wild turn of phrase, when you think about it: pregnant with an idea. It speaks volumes about the power of an idea, how it acts upon us, how it changes us, how it can fall right out the bottom of us and take on a life of its own.”
― Andrew Barrer, Young Blood