“you can't save people from the world. There's nowhere else to take them.”
―
M.R. Carey,
The Girl with All the Gifts
“And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. Everything is always both. But you have to open it to find that out.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved. You've already stopped being the person who had the dreams, so it feels more like a weird echo of something that already happened to you a long time ago.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“The truth is the truth, the only prize worth having. If you deny it, you’re only showing that you’re unworthy of it.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“It’s not just Pandora who had that inescapable flaw. It seems like everyone has been built in a way that sometimes makes them do wrong and stupid things.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“the horror of the unknown is more frightening than any horror you can understand” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“In an age of rust, she comes up stainless steel” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“She’s as big as four-fifths of five-eighths of fuck all, but she takes no bullshit from anyone.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“It’s like before the Breakdown people used to spend their whole lives making cocoons for themselves out of furniture and ornaments and books and toys and pictures and any kind of shit they could find. As though they hoped they’d be born out of the cocoon as something else.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“She’s lived in Plato’s cave, staring at the shadows on the wall. Now she’s been turned around to face the fire.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“Growing up and growing old. Playing. Exploring. Like Pooh and Piglet. And then like the Famous Five. And then like Heidi and Anne of Green Gables. And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. Everything is always both. But you have to open it to find that out.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“Melanie finds this interesting in spite of herself — that you can use words to hide things, or not to touch them, or to pretend that they're something different than they are.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“It's equinox, with the world balanced between winter and summer, life and death, like a spinning ball balanced on the tip of someone's finger.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“No amount of expertly choreographed PR could prevail, in the end, against Armageddon. It strolled over the barricades and took its pleasure.” ― m.r. carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“He had already learned to read, but now he learned the pleasure of stories which is like no other pleasure—the experience of slipping sideways into another world and living there for as long as you want to.” ― M.R. Carey, The Boy on the Bridge
“This gauntlet, flung down by a bullying, contemptuous universe that allowed human beings to grope their way to sentience just so it could put them in their place that bit more painfully.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“This isn’t life. It’s something that’s playing out in its own self-contained subroutine.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. Everything is always both. But you have to open it to find that out.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved. You've already stopped being the person who had the dreams, so it feels more like a weird echo of something that already happened to you a long time ago.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“The truth is the truth, the only prize worth having. If you deny it, you’re only showing that you’re unworthy of it.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“It’s not just Pandora who had that inescapable flaw. It seems like everyone has been built in a way that sometimes makes them do wrong and stupid things.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“the horror of the unknown is more frightening than any horror you can understand” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“In an age of rust, she comes up stainless steel” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“She’s as big as four-fifths of five-eighths of fuck all, but she takes no bullshit from anyone.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“It’s like before the Breakdown people used to spend their whole lives making cocoons for themselves out of furniture and ornaments and books and toys and pictures and any kind of shit they could find. As though they hoped they’d be born out of the cocoon as something else.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“She’s lived in Plato’s cave, staring at the shadows on the wall. Now she’s been turned around to face the fire.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“Growing up and growing old. Playing. Exploring. Like Pooh and Piglet. And then like the Famous Five. And then like Heidi and Anne of Green Gables. And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. Everything is always both. But you have to open it to find that out.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“Melanie finds this interesting in spite of herself — that you can use words to hide things, or not to touch them, or to pretend that they're something different than they are.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“It's equinox, with the world balanced between winter and summer, life and death, like a spinning ball balanced on the tip of someone's finger.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“No amount of expertly choreographed PR could prevail, in the end, against Armageddon. It strolled over the barricades and took its pleasure.” ― m.r. carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
“He had already learned to read, but now he learned the pleasure of stories which is like no other pleasure—the experience of slipping sideways into another world and living there for as long as you want to.” ― M.R. Carey, The Boy on the Bridge
“This gauntlet, flung down by a bullying, contemptuous universe that allowed human beings to grope their way to sentience just so it could put them in their place that bit more painfully.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
“This isn’t life. It’s something that’s playing out in its own self-contained subroutine.” ― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
