Constance Quotes

“Why is it that the more I change, the more I need everything around me to stay the same? It’s a perverse design flaw in our species.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“Humans are very good at inventing solutions and very, very bad at anticipating consequences.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“If you lived your life to be remembered when you were gone,”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“Life reduced to its most basic needs: food, water, shelter. Hard to make a plan when you were hungry, tired, and scared all the time.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“Most of life is lived to be forgotten. That was the way of things, cruel though it felt when it was your life that would be lost.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“But the luster of any tragedy eventually wore off. The narrative changed.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“Einstein should have spent more time investigating the uneven way that time passed in December, the supermassive black hole of the Gregorian calendar.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“In this country, power doesn’t derive from defeating a threat; true power comes from the fear of the threat. And maintaining power requires a continuing threat. No one worries about causes that are already decided.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“In this country, power doesn’t derive from defeating a threat; true power comes from the fear of the threat. And maintaining power requires a continuing threat. No one worries about causes that are already decided. When was the last time someone wrote a check to defeat prohibition?”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“since when have nuanced arguments ever worked in America?”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“Stubbornness was a rich vein of ore running through both sides of her family, and Con mined it for the will to endure anything.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“We are arriving and departing all at the same time. —David Bowie”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“Welcome home,” Abigail Stickling said, looking remarkably fit for someone who had leapt to her death on Christmas night eighteen months ago.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“A car pulled up, silent as Charon’s ferry. The two Cons got in.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“pragmatism won out over principle.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“Butler listened intently and then hung up, regarding Con with newfound curiosity.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“zirc,”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“But when neither fight nor flight was an option, there was nowhere for the adrenaline to go.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“Complicated is only bad to the kind of people who need things to be simple.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“The brain has plenty of unused space,”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“Augmented consciousness, she called it. Instant expertise.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“Why is it that the more I change, the more I need everything around me to stay the same?”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“Are you going through the same things your original did?”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“The team was in DC for a versus against the Filibusters.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“They were each haunted by the same questions: Who was Con D’Arcy, and why had she married Levi Greer?”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“Tomorrow, she would pay him a visit in jail.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“The park was a tree-lined triangle of land at the corner of Florida”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“They were like cockroaches waiting for the lights to go out.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance

“thick as thieves.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Constance