“When Wiley moved back to Safe Haven, flush with ill-gotten gains, he spared no expense building his dream house. And Wiley’s idea of a dream house was very close to Batman’s.”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Afraid
“Do you really believe that freedom of choice exists? India still has a caste system. Most of the Middle East treats women as inferiors and those who practice other religions as enemies. China regulates how many children couples can have, genocide abounds in South America and Africa, Malaysia has a booming underage sex trade, and the list goes on and on. All around the world the people in power abuse it and human rights are ignored. But what if we were incapable of hurting our fellow man? What if our core impulse was to help each other rather than control each other? The human race is destructive. This research could fix it. Purify it.”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Afraid
“A sickly sweet odor invaded Duncan’s head, pushing away the stench of burning hair. The fact that it smelled tasty made it even more disgusting.”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Afraid
“Change is inevitable,” Stubin said. “You can’t ignore technology.” “Ignoring it and choosing not to embrace it are two different things, I think,” Josh said.”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Afraid
“What turns a person into a monster like this? Training? Some horrible event in his past? Genetics? How does a man lose his humanity?”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Afraid
“She flailed out her arms, trying to climb up, but struggling slicked her in blood and slippery fluids, making her slide down farther. Gory, lukewarm limbs poked her. Pale faces with rictus grins kissed her.”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Afraid
“You didn’t win at chess by killing pawns—you won by checkmating the king.”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Afraid
“We can’t control what happens to us,” Streng said, recalling something his father used to say. “Only how we react to what happens.”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Afraid
“I’m not afraid of the dead,” Streng remembered saying. “I’m afraid of what made them dead.”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Afraid
“Sal pushed down on the knife, forcing it in to the hilt, making himself stone for her sake. He held it until Maggie’s heart ceased to beat, until the vibrations in the knife’s handle stopped.”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Afraid
“Do you really believe that freedom of choice exists? India still has a caste system. Most of the Middle East treats women as inferiors and those who practice other religions as enemies. China regulates how many children couples can have, genocide abounds in South America and Africa, Malaysia has a booming underage sex trade, and the list goes on and on. All around the world the people in power abuse it and human rights are ignored. But what if we were incapable of hurting our fellow man? What if our core impulse was to help each other rather than control each other?”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Afraid
“There is no decent place to stand in a massacre. —LEONARD COHEN”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Afraid
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“Then there was David, lording it up at Buckingham Palace, thinking he was king of the shit heap. That guy was definitely nuts, like every dictator that had gone before him. Nero, Caligula, Henry the Eighth, Napoleon, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Margaret Thatcher, Colonel Gaddafi, that crazy North Korean bastard who was in Team America, Kim Jong whatever.”
― Charlie Higson, quote from The Sacrifice
“There's a wide world out there, for those willing to brave the dark.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Painted Man
“When faced with a challenge, get smarter.”
― Ed Catmull, quote from Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
“Then, all of a sudden, there was a great black hull, stretching farther than my eye could see.”
― Ellen Emerson White, quote from Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
“This girl's out of her mind, about two pebbles short of a cave-in.”
― David Estes, quote from The Earth Dwellers
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