"The Blind Assassin" Quotes

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next - if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions - you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know the habit of going back.

It's a time-honored adage that love makes us all differently the same, but it doesn't.

It's an eternally morbid question, the nature of guilt. It can only be washed away by the blood of someone innocent.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

I've decided that the things that are wrong with me are the things that are wrong with everyone.

It's difficult to see the forest when you're lost in the trees.

We were strangers who knew each other very well.

I'm cutting my ties to the past, I said, although I knew very well that it was the past that was cutting its ties to me.