Best 12 quotes of Nick Lake on MyQuotes

But here's the thing: The something new, it isn't necessarily bad. In fact, in some ways, maybe it's better.

Every generation that goes into your genes is a generation of fighters, of survivors. And all those millions of lives are in you, in your blood.

He held his head, and he cried for them, and he did not melt into the sea but sat, aching, in the glowing moonlight-for in the end our bodies know only how to carry on surviving. That is our strength, and our tragedy.

It's like she had a soul that was much too big for her; it filled her to the brim till there was no more space, so it flowed out through her eyes.

i wonder what it's like. it's impossible to imagine. when u have only known the absence of a thing, how do u construct its feeling in ur mind?

No one is too old for fairy tales.

Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.

...she took away my yesterdays. But that's OK. Because now I am a person made of tomorrows.

There are things that, when they break, they keep on functioning, just in some other, lesser way. Like an elevator: it breaks, and it's a room. An escalator: it breaks, and it's stairs The heart is the same. It breaks, and you might not even notice, because you still feel things, you still have emotions.

This is the thing: people think that magic doesn't exist, but it does, all the time. We use spells every day: the spell of forgiveness, the spell of thanks.

When you keep hurting someone, you do one of three things. Either you fill them up with hate, and they destroy everything around them. Or you fill them up with sadness, and they destroy themselves. Or you fill them up with justice, and they try to destroy everything that's bad and cruel in this world. Me, I was the first kind of person.

You are descended from warriors. An endless parade of warriors. You have been alive for a billion years, an unbroken line of DNA. You will not be defeated by a ditch.