We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.
M.T. AndersonTag: first-sentence
We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.
M.T. AndersonTag: activism
At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.
M.T. AndersonTag: octavian-nothing
It is ever the lot of children to accept their circumstances as universal, and their particularities as general.
M.T. AndersonPeople talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born.
And I am turning into a vampire.
Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash.
M.T. AndersonHe lives in kind of a different world from the rest of us. You know? The kind of world where electricity is a lot of invisible spiders. The kind of world where there's organ music that gets louder when he eats refined sugar.
M.T. AndersonThere are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.
M.T. AndersonTag: friendship
Lily told her about what had happened so far. (If you're interested, you can go back to the beginning of the book and read all the way through to this point again.)
M.T. AndersonYou know who you should ask about this? My pal Ray, who works with me. He could tell you all about this." Lily's dad nodded. "Except he was taken out of the office a few days ago with his hands tied behind his back and a bandanna tied as a gag on his mouth." Her father thought for a second. "Huh. He hasn't been in to work since. I wonder if he has the flu.
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