PASSAGES FROM THE TEXT
The lines that stay with you. Click any passage to read the editorial commentary.
"Organic damage. They'd upgraded the terminology since my last time in the Protectorate. It used to be called assault."
— ALTERED CARBON
"The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice."
— ALTERED CARBON
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?"
— ALTERED CARBON
"Envoys learn to love the new. It's a survival mechanism."
— ALTERED CARBON
"The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here — it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft."
— ALTERED CARBON — QUELLCRIST FALCONER
"Sleeve me in something with a good metabolism and I'll show you what I can do."
— ALTERED CARBON
"Centuries of being rich had left their mark. He moved like a man who had never been told no."
— ALTERED CARBON
"Death is only real if you're poor."
— ALTERED CARBON
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