“Their lips met with a tender and powerful force. At that point, they melted into each other and Seth felt a flush of sensations over his entire being. Hands wandered naturally, and each caress became more exciting and pleasurable. Where the body ended and the soul began was a mystery in this ancient game of combinations.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“The FDA and the EPA are supposed to be protecting us, not the people who make the poison.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“He felt teenage rejection overcoming him like a childhood virus that lies dormant, then attacks the unsuspecting adult. It would never be something he would get used to.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“You will always be a puppet on someone else’s line if you don’t care enough about the big picture to let your tiny voice be heard. When it is combined with the tiny voices of millions of others that is the real power.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“If you’re not looking for the right thing, you can’t be disappointed if you don’t get it.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“It was a puzzle for men how women never got tired of shopping, even if there was nothing to buy”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“And how about doing the job we hired you gentlemen and ladies for? Start doing it by reading the legislation you pass. If you don’t know what it says, don’t vote for it.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“If you knew when your last day of life was going to be, it was the best place to spend your last night on earth, because in Russia people party like tomorrow will never come.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“Sometimes one man must fight for what he feels is right, even against the majority. Something that is wrong does not change to right just because the majority approves it, ignores it, or the government says it is right. It is still wrong.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“The sensation was an explosion of feelings, leaving in its place a pleasured memory of that moment. That, thought Seth, was pure heaven”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“We forget that we humans are animals, inextricably connected to the world and everything in it. In the rush to bring GMO food to the world because it was good for us, nobody had asked the question whether it would be good for the world.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“Seth discovered that night that he had two extra stomachs; one for vodka and one for overeating.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“There was a chemical solution to all of America’s food needs, which had been whittled away for years and years and honed down with precision to train the public that everything they needed to put on the table for their family came in a box, bottle or can.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“He was a playboy type in his late 30’s, and a sharp dresser, tonight being no exception. Dave wore a designer sports jacket and chic designer jeans; not at all what you would expect from an FBI agent’s undercover expense budget. His wife (or whoever she was), Julia, was a conservative dresser, with more of what you would expect an FBI agent to be wearing. She had mousy brown hair, spoke in nasal tones, and was somewhat frumpy; not much to look at. They went together about as well as Brad Pitt and a den mother from Davenport Iowa.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“Leave it to a woman to notice all of the little details that men often ignore.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“When I left, Mr. Chairman, I had the constitutional right to freedom of speech. Has that right been stripped from the American people while I was gone?”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“I think you know how it works, Senator. The big chemical companies fill the coffers of one of your colleagues who is a lawmaker from an agricultural state such as, well, let’s take Iowa, for example, and the lawmaker recommends the president to install industry executives in high positions, such as the head of the FDA or the EPA, and, this way, the industry can approve its own products without safety testing.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“He was smart, but he had to be smarter. No points for second place.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“Politicians were famous for double-speak and were consummate liars. That’s why George W. Bush had to be their favorite president. It’s easier to commit a fraud when the actor believes his lie to the point of a conviction”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“Seth’s clock had been set on survival so long that he didn’t realize that he was starving himself of an essential element of being, that of having fun”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
“First the FSB agent, and now the FBI. It was becoming a real alphabet soup of international espionage.”
― Kenneth Eade, quote from An Involuntary Spy
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“So most men teach, and few men learn.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from The Children of Húrin
“We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.”
― James A. Michener, quote from The Source
“Yet the stories moved her. She couldn’t deny it. And they moved her in a way only *true* things could. It wasn’t sentiment that brought tears to her eyes. The stories weren’t sentimental. They were tough, even cruel. No, what made her weep was being reminded of an inner life she’d been so familiar with as a child; a life that was both an escape from, and revenge upon, the pains and frustrations of childhood; a life that was neither mawkish nor unknowing; a life of mind-places - haunted, soaring – that she’d chosen to forget when she’d took up the cause of adulthood.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Weaveworld
“Lotti contro la tua superficialità, la tua faciloneria, per cercare di accostarti alla gente senza aspettative illusorie, senza un carico eccessivo di pregiudizi, di speranze o di arroganza, nel modo meno simile a quello di un carro armato, senza cannoni, mitragliatrici e corazze d'acciaio spesse quindici centimetri; offri alla gente il tuo volto più bonario, camminando in punta di piedi invece di sconvolgere il terreno con i cingoli, e l'affronti con larghezza di vedute, da pari a pari, da uomo a uomo, come si diceva una volta, e tuttavia non manchi mai di capirla male. Tanto varrebbe avere il cervello di un carro armato. La capisci male prima d'incontrarla, mentre pregusti il momento in cui l'incontrerai; la capisci male mentre sei con lei; e poi vai a casa, parli con qualcun altro dell'incontro, e scopri ancora una volta di aver travisato. Poiché la stessa cosa capita, in genere, anche ai tuoi interlocutori, tutta la faccenda è, veramente, una colossale illusione priva di fondamento, una sbalorditiva commedia degli equivoci. Eppure, come dobbiamo regolarci con questa storia, questa storia così importante, la storia degli altri, che si rivela priva del significato che secondo noi dovrebbe avere e che assume invece un significato grottesco, tanto siamo male attrezzati per discernere l'intimo lavorio e gli scopi invisibili degli altri? Devono, tutti, andarsene e chiudere la porta e vivere isolati come fanno gli scrittori solitari, in una cella insonorizzata, creando i loro personaggi con le parole e poi suggerendo che questi personaggi di parole siano più vicini alla realtà delle persone vere che ogni giorno noi mutiliamo con la nostra ignoranza? Rimane il fatto che, in ogni modo, capire bene la gente non è vivere. Vivere è capirla male, capirla male e male e male e poi male e, dopo un attento riesame, ancora male. Ecco come sappiamo di essere vivi: sbagliando. Forse la cosa migliore sarebbe dimenticare di aver ragione o torto sulla gente e godersi semplicemente la gita. Ma se ci riuscite… Beh, siete fortunati.”
― Philip Roth, quote from American Pastoral
“It was a day-by-day record of a Guild much younger and smaller than the current one. After several pages, she had grown fond of the record-keeper, who clearly admired the people he was writing about.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The High Lord
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