Author of quotes: Ian MacDonald

Everett suddenly realized that for every action, for every decision someone is paying a terrible price. In fighters this is not happening. There is never consequences.

... when you convince yourself that you will be denied, and all your arguments cannot lead to anything but failure, and you suddenly say "Yes." Such a short word, you're his first and not even notice, and then stumble on it like an invisible crack in the pavement, and you have to come back to check, why are you suddenly stretched.

Have you ever watched a house burn? This is the worst thing in the world. Someone's hopes, warmth - all that one loved and the shore, and disappeared without any sense. The flame has no conscience.

Everett had seen weirdos, who spend the whole day in the library, studying genealogy and history. A journey into the past that seems to never end - because if it ends, life for these people will lose the meaning.

The plans, drawn up in the predawn twilight, they look cheap and unreliable in the light of day.