Best 16 quotes of Alex London on MyQuotes

A grudge was just another debt owed.

A hawk you’d had for a dozen seasons could fly away from you at any moment. When you released the tether and let fly, you trusted the hawk to the world and hoped that the world would return it unharmed. People weren’t so different. Sometimes they left and never came back.

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.

... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370)

Great poems know more than their poets, but they cannot exist without them.

He took deep breaths. He wanted to sleep. At least in sleeping, he could find a kind of peace. At least in sleeping, he could dream about his dead friends and maybe, until the sun came up, feel like he wasn't all alone.

He was a real-life soldier playing soldier from his memories of made up soldiers.

I’d rather live in a world where I get to love the moon than in one where I don’t, even if the moon won’t return the feeling.

It was good to be admired for something. Everyone should feel that way sometimes, he thought.

Power is, and will forever be, tethered to its own weakness.

Then he pulled Liam forward and pressed their lips together. The kiss was no longer than a second, but in that second, any walls between them fell. Liam's body was Syd's body; Syd's mind was Liam's mind. someones eyelashes tickled and they drew apart

There was no convincing him that only a fool chased the approval of a dead man.

They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?

This is bigger than you," said Mr. Baram. "You can bring down this whole system. Erase the data that enslaves so many. Jubilee. Freedom. Forgiveness. Is that not enough?

What made some words scarier than others, some sounds too dangerous to be said? Memory. It wasn’t the words themselves that had power but the memories that stuck to words like ticks on deer, draining and infecting them. If you shut down your memory and ignored the knowing-self inside you, you could say anything.

Yes, he wanted to tell Krystof, it will hurt. Even if you don't get sick like them. It will hurt.