“The people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger. They were blind sleepwalkers on tightropes, fingers scoring thin air.”
“But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.”
“I'd seen entire constellations of possibility I'd never previously been aware of, so blinded had I been by the bright, glaring stars of expectation. Freedom, I was beginning to think, had less to do with where you were, and was more about who you were trying to be.”
“And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.”
“His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air.”
“There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.”