#altered carbon books

[destinedtobeloved]

They are forever intertwined together, and Sarah is a fading ball of light, and Takeshi will always be a ways away, chasing the warmth as it goes.

But it doesn’t matter what is to come, because right now they are together.

Sarah and Takeshi are looking into each others eyes and nothing is perfect, but the way he moves her dark hair from her face just so he can touch her is perfect enough.

Just minutes later, Sarah will be dead and so will Takeshi, and a lifetime of pain will soon follow without the two of them staying close in orbit, but for now, they are together, and they will not think about their deaths sitting just up around the bend.

But Takeshi will be unthawed in the coming years, and he will wake with a familiar ache in his chest. He will awake in a bed that is not his and will reach across blindly, still reeling from his nightmare, clawing for the woman he had lost.

He will distract himself with other things, but the memory of her falling back with a magazine of rapid fire bullets shot into her skin, still trying to cover herself so Takeshi wouldn’t see the mess she had been torn into will stay, and everytime he handles a gun he will think of how she had once labeled them with colors and how they innocently stay on the table on their last night alive. Last night alive together.

And so the memory of her fades, and so he will fade with it, no longer being able to remember the warmth of her skin laying next to him as if it was what they were both made to do.

And maybe her stack will wash up on a beach somehwere.

Sarah will grow and flourish into the person she should have been able to be, maybe, 300 years ago, but Takeshi will stay the same. He will awake from nightmares in the night, and his head will hurt from battles stories from years ago that he will never explain in full.

He will always be a step behind and a step ahead of her, always just one movement away from being in sync, but not quite.

He will mourn for their lost time, and will hate the meth that had deemed him free- forced into what seems to be a separate and even longer lifetime of violence and pain that is his and his only.

He won’t cry, but he will crumble, and Sarah will watch, still left in the dark in her missing years, never hearing but always understanding the past he had suffered.

She will hold him tighter and kiss him longer, and she prays that it will be enough.

Regardless, she is always one step ahead and one step behind, one movement away from being in sync, but not quite.

[neondreams2145]

When they ask how I died. tell them: Still Angry.

-Quellcrist Falconer

From Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan.

[i-know-how-my-story-ends]

Quotes from Altered Carbon season one that I think about all the goddamn time:

"If they ask how I died, tell them: still angry."

"When the victors rewrite history, it's just another kind of war, waged after the battlefield killing is done to murder the memory of the defeated."

"I fought a war to keep people like you from happening."

"Rage at injustice is universal. The ability to strike back is not."

"At its heart, violence is almost always, in one way or another, personal."

"Technology advances. Humans don't."

"No matter how far we venture into the unknown, the worst monsters are those we bring with us."

"This is what you do, love. Stride across the centuries, and death follows, churning in your wake."

[litandlifequotes]

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

[tapewormist]

“Whatever you feel, whatever you're thinking, whatever you are when they store you, that's what you'll be when you come out. With states of high anxiety, that can be a problem.

So you let go. Stick it in neutral. Disengage and float.”

Takeshi Kovacs from Altered Carbon; Richard Morgan. 📖

[mlobsters]

ato essandoh in elementary / altered carbon / evil

someone in this episode of evil was in altered carbon (and he was alfredo in elementary ❤️) and i was wondering if he was also in spn (no) but going through all my hey i know you spn posts tagging altered carbon and there are A Lot considering how few (18) episodes there are in that series

well this is an excuse to add some pretty pictures anyway so here we go

[bedofherteeth]

GUESS MY TYPE: favorite characters' edition! › tagged by @malewife-mansplain-magus (thank yooouuu, seb!)

THE LIST: ♡ GERALT OF RIVIA from THE WITCHER ♡  ARTHUR MORGAN from RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 ♡ TAKESHI KOVACS from ALTERED CARBON ♡ RAYMOND REDDINGTON from THE BLACKLIST ♡ DRACULA from DRACULA (NETFLIX) ♡ BIGBY WOLF from THE WOLF AMONG US ♡ CONNOR from DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN ♡  LUCIFER MORNINGSTAR from LUCIFER ♡ JACKSON MAINE from A STAR IS BORN

Tagging absolutely everyone who sees this. You’re free to @ me and tell everyone I tagged you. 🤘

[vole-mon-amour]

"If you can't handle sex scenes in books, stick to Winnie The Pooh."

Hey, maybe if authors learn how to actually write GOOD sex scenes that contribute to the book and its plot, then people would complain less about unnecessary sex scenes. And, oh, it's often so much misogyny in that writing. God forbid women and queer characters are treated right in those books.

Anyway, 95% of the time the sex scenes in those books ARE unnecessary, poorly written, and don't add anything to the story.

And, honestly, if I want to read porn, I'll go to AO3 or pick up erotica/porn, not a ski-fi cyberpunk detective book.

[fcbabyx]

Y’all I’m reading the Altered Carbon book and 😂 Tak in the book is just

Mind you tho, season one Taks were also phenomenal!

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

[altered-tiababylo]

passing the book.

[destinedtobeloved]

Takeshi needs to stop falling in love w women who arnt in love w him

[neondreams2145]

"Put on the new flesh, like borrowed gloves, and burn your fingers once again." -Richard K Morgan

[kitty-mactabbysh]

Reading altered carbon after watching the netflix adaptation is so funny because i can't see bancroft as he is described on the book

To me, he looks like insanity as art.

It's james purefoy he's insanity as art

[bonzogalactico]

“(…) and like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.”

Richard K. Morgan

Altered Carbon (2002)

[i-know-how-my-story-ends]

It's so funny (in a horrible way) that the author of the Altered Carbon books is a transphobe. Bro you wrote books where the human consciousness could be downloaded or transferred into any body