Quotes from Daniel Price

I guess I'd rather live in a world where bad things happen for some reason than no reason.

It's so easy to believe, after everything we've seen, that we live in a cold and senseless universe. But as long as we have a world to live in, as long as we have people to love, we are the lucky ones, Zack. We are the blessed.

sky dribbled just enough to make the windshield wipers squeal at the slowest setting.

Mia could see that he was struggling to hold back a grin. He reminded her of a kid at Christmas mass, hearing about the Lord but thinking about the presents.

Time is a landscape that stretches across all things. We're the ones who move across it.

It seems you're one-sixth of your world's remaining population. You're the living marker for a billion people. Given the numbers, I suppose it'd be especially tragic if you threw your life away now. It wouldn't just be suicide. It'd be genocide.

Only a weak man fails to honor his parents.

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That's not the kind of thing crazy people do, her muddled thoughts insisted. That's the kind of thing crazy people see.

No work again today, huh? You should be pounding the pavement instead of playing computer games. At least get some exercise. How do you expect to find a woman if you're all pasty and scrawny? Guess the family name's dying with you. No work again today, huh?

Next time you're overwhelmed, just remind yourself that this isn't completely foreign. This isn't square one. Things are different, but they're still a little the same.

Whatever's going on with us, it's not a disease. It's not a beast. It's just a new muscle. You're never going to control it if you're too afraid to flex it.

You think this is the first time you've been at risk of killing someone? You're a nurse. The wrong injection and boom, dead patient. That never stopped you from working. You could run over three people on the way to the office. That never stopped you from driving. You did these things, despite the risks,

The future had become a fierce, wild creature.

It was mad and it was beautiful.