“ I have never met a person who possessed a privilege who did not exercise that privilege to the fullest extent that they possibly could. Say what you like of a belief...of a party...of a finance system… Robert Jackson Bennett
“ When I come back to you, if I come back to you, will I know you? Will you be the city of my memory? Or will you be a stranger? Robert Jackson Bennett
“ Every second is a forever in Wink. Every day is a cool afternoon waiting to happen. And every life is one lived quietly, with your feet up and your sun-dappled lawn before you as you watch the world h… Robert Jackson Bennett
“ Miracles are just formal requests, Shara thinks wildly. It's like having a form preprinted and filled out and handing it in to get exactly what you want! But you don't always have to do it that way! Y… Robert Jackson Bennett
“ Envy the fire, for it is either going or not. Fires do not feel happy, sad, angry. They burn, or they do not burn. Robert Jackson Bennett
“ I am sorrowful. I am sorrowful that I happened to be born into a world where being disgusted with yourself was what you were supposed to be. I am sorrowful that my fellow countrymen feel that being hu… Robert Jackson Bennett
“ The word everyone forgets is 'serve'...Yes. Serve. This is the service, and we soldiers are servants. Sure, when people think of a soldier, they think of soldiers taking. They think of us taking terri… Robert Jackson Bennett
“ And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life. Robert Jackson Bennett
“ ...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness. Robert Jackson Bennett
“ What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures. Robert Jackson Bennett
“ They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong. Robert Jackson Bennett
“ Shara was already an avid reader by then, but she had never realized until that moment what books meant, the possibility they presented: you could protect them forever, store them up like engineers st… Robert Jackson Bennett
“ Humanity's relationship with the Divine is one of mutual give and take, and we mutually opted to part ways. But this perpetuation - setting up a way of thinking, and just letting it run - it doesn't a… Robert Jackson Bennett
“ She realized she'd been thinking for years that she would not truly be pleased until she'd checked off this last achievement on her list, but one of the dangers of such thinking is that the event one… Robert Jackson Bennett
“ Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying. Robert Jackson Bennett
“ I don't have the time or the energy to hate," says Shara. "I only wish to understand. People are what they are. Robert Jackson Bennett
“ A soldier serves not to take, they don't strive to have something, but rather they strive so that others might one day have something. And a blade isn't a happy friend to a soldier, but a burden, a he… Robert Jackson Bennett
“ No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close. Robert Jackson Bennett
