“The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“He may be a scholar, but he’s first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was betrayed by his government.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations he knew so well, for there was no night and day where his work was concerned. There was only the flat light of fluorescent tubes in offices that never closed.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...Delta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cain”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“There was too little space for their own—and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
“For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
Robert Ludlum
Born place: in New York, New York, The United States
Born date May 25, 1927
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“Wait for the morning, when you can regroup with your friends, and the seven of you can start scheming together.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Nightfall
“I have a theory. Hating someone feels disturbingly similar to being in love with them. I've had a lot of time to compare love and hate, and these are my observations.
Love and hate are visceral. Your stomach twists at the thought of that person. The heart in your chest beats heavy and bright, nearly visible through your flesh and clothes. Your appetite and sleep are schredded. Every interaction spikes your blood with adrenaline, and you're in the brink of fight or flight. Your body is barely under your control. You're consumed, and it scares you.
Both love and hate are mirror versions of the same game - and you háve to win. Why? Your heart and your ego. Trust me, I should know.”
― Sally Thorne, quote from The Hating Game
“There are parts of yourself that you hate; parts that you know other people wouldn’t understand. And he knew his own worst elements had been passed on to me, this unwieldy wrath that burns through my brain, turning reason to ash. So I can’t be angry with him for leaving when I understand too well the reason.”
― Mindy McGinnis, quote from The Female of the Species
“Tell me. What is the point of life, if truth is not worth standing up for? If justice is a hollow shell? If beauty and grace are burnt to ashes, and evil rejoices in the flames? Shall I weep on that day, and lose my mind, or join the rejoicing and lose my soul? Shall I sit in my room? Should I go for a long walk, but where might I go so as not to smell the smoke? Should I just go on, Mrs. Nettles, like everyone else?”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from Speaks the Nightbird
“I am fluent in snark.
Bethany only notices snark when snark grabs her off the sidewalk, throws her in the back of a sketchy van with tinted windows, drives to the middle
of the Meadow-lands in the dead of night, and uses a heavy blunt instrument
to smack her repeatedly about the head as it screams, “I’M SNARK. DO YOU FUCKING HEAR ME? I’M SNARKY SNARKY SNARK!” And even then she’s like, “Ohhhh? Snark? Is that you?”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings
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