Heat 2 Quotes

“We’re all footprints on a beach. The tide comes through and you were never there.”
― Michael Mann, Heat 2

“No attachments. Walk away in thirty seconds flat from anything and anybody if you spot the heat around the corner.”
― Michael Mann, Heat 2

“he all at once understood that we are an accident of happenstance on a speck of dust in a blink of time in the big nothing. It didn’t fill him with meaninglessness. It made him feel that consciousness was a rare and recent temporary accident. And that meant life is about what you did with it right now. It infused him with ambition.”
― Michael Mann, Heat 2

“Life happens as we make it happen. We’re making this happen. But it’s not so predictable.”
― Michael Kenneth Mann, Heat 2

“You got out of that place.” He gazes at the distant shiver of the Vegas lights. “Why not this one?” It pops into her head: Next. She hasn’t thought of that since . . . when? It’s always now. And numb.”
― Michael Kenneth Mann, Heat 2

“mordita.”
― Michael Mann, Heat 2

“Alex can hear every molecule of air entering”
― Michael Mann, Heat 2

“Realness eats raw meat and does not waver He has the staying power of the sun He walks only in his own shoes —Spoon Jackson”
― Michael E. Mann, Heat 2

“That’s the point. We’re here now. No big reason we exist. No purpose. No heaven or hell waiting on how we pray. The only real question is, why keep on living? Is life worth it? Why not just kill yourself? The only judgment is how we use the now.” “I don’t want to put an end to it. If this is what we have, better live it.” “Yeah. All we have is this moment. We live it, conscious of what it means. Nothing. But completely live it. That’s what it is.”
― Michael Mann, Heat 2

“You are in there. I know it. No matter how dark it is. On this side, there is light. You can come back. We are here. We are waiting for you.”
― Michael Mann, Heat 2

“Di tanto in tanto spegneva i fari, come aveva fatto quella sera, guidando con l'eccitazione di poter finire in una cunetta a cento all'ora. Cosa cercava? Da cosa fuggiva? […] Non aveva mai trovato una risposta, perché non esisteva. L'azione di buttare fuori e rincorrere era diventata naturale, per lui. Rincorrere una sequenza di dati ignoti, fino alla sua origine in posti oscuri e selvaggi, o nell'anonimato di cemento dei paesaggi cittadini, era quell'azione che lo motivava.”
― Michael Mann, Heat 2: A Novel

“What goes around comes around, Hanna thinks. When you fall, you land where you were aiming for all along. So you better find a way to hang on, brother. Get back up. Drive forward.”
― Michael Kenneth Mann, Heat 2

“I’m here now.” “Exactly. That’s the point. We’re here now. No big reason we exist. No purpose. No heaven or hell waiting on how we pray. The only real question is, why keep on living? Is life worth it? Why not just kill yourself? The only judgment is how we use the now.” “I don’t want to put an end to it. If this is what we have, better live it.” “Yeah. All we have is this moment. We live it, conscious of what it means. Nothing. But completely live it. That’s what it is.”
― Michael Kenneth Mann, Heat 2

“Making sure she never has to go back. Burying herself in nothing, in glitter, glazing it with weed, whiskey, smack, whites. Morning, noon, night, none of it matters. Worn down, worn out. Until right fucking now.”
― Michael Kenneth Mann, Heat 2

“Trade winds blow east six months”
― Michael Kenneth Mann, Heat 2