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432 pages, Paperback
First published June 23, 2014
“You know what the Chinese think is the saddest feeling in the world? It’s for a child to finally grow the desire to take care of his parents, only to realize that they were long gone.”
“Cut me and I won’t bleed. Gas me and I won’t breathe.
Stab me, shoot me, slash me, smash me
I have swallowed science
I am God.
Alone.”
“Those quiet, mannerly, law-abiding people didn’t want him to escape, Raeder thought sadly. They wanted to see a killing. Or perhaps they wanted to see him narrowly escape a killing.
It came to the same thing, really.”
“Society had woven the noose and put it around his neck, and he was hanging himself with it, and calling it free will.”