https://www.shawnconn.com/authors/max-payne en https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/choices <article role="article" class="quote teaser clearfix"><h2> <a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/choices" rel="bookmark"><span>Choices</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/choices" rel="tag" title="Choices" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Choices</span></a></li></ul><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?'. When you look back and see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions.</div> </div> </article> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:01:10 +0000 Shawn Conn 26 at https://www.shawnconn.com https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/end-of-world <article role="article" class="quote teaser clearfix"><h2> <a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/end-of-world" rel="bookmark"><span>The End of the World</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/end-of-world" rel="tag" title="The End of the World" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about The End of the World</span></a></li></ul><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">After Y2K the end of the world had become a cliché. But who was I to talk, a brooding underdog avenger along against an empire of evil, out to right a grave injustice. Everything was subjective. There were only personal apocalypses. Nothing is a clichéwhen it's happening to you.</div> </div> </article> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:00:19 +0000 Shawn Conn 25 at https://www.shawnconn.com