“Money. What the hell were we thinking?”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“Sure, not like I got some place to be. Like with Carly, on top of Carly, possibly even inside Carly…”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“Will decided it wasn’t the cross that was doing all the damage, it was the silver along the edges.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“So much blood. Where did all the blood come from…?”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“God is God. He doesn’t need me to believe in him for him to do what he does. If that were the case, he wouldn’t be God.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“There’s a lot you don’t know, Kemosabe. Like women. Kids. And how to avoid women with kids.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“What are you staring at, mister?” “You don’t know, do you?” “Know what? What are you talking about?” “That you’re beautiful.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“I was thinking how happy I am. Right now. At this moment with you. Even before everything happened, I don’t think I’ve ever been this happy.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“This is what I do, Will. I sell people on things.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“She smiled back, and for a split second she wanted to grab his hand and tell him to ignore what was happening out there, to stay with her instead, that they could be happy here, just the two of them.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“Thanks for coming,” she smiled up at him. “I had no choice. It was either this or find a new girlfriend. As you’ve probably noticed, my history with girlfriends in the post-apocalypse has been pretty hit and miss.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“One at a time. In a gunfight, your best asset is your ability to aim and fire.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“They were everywhere. They were simply…everywhere.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“He put his arms around her, and she felt warm and wanted very much to just let herself be lost inside his arms, to be with him like this forever, the ghouls be damned. Who were they to say who she could or couldn’t be with on the last night of her life?”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“Ready?” “Thanks for coming,” she smiled up at him. “I had no choice. It was either this or find a new girlfriend. As you’ve probably noticed, my history with girlfriends in the post-apocalypse has been pretty hit and miss.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“I need to get a Kindle version…”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“The place that was supposed to be her salvation had become her prison. She realized that now, more than ever.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“No shit, Doc. Tell me something I don’t know.” “I once dated a lesbian in college.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“She smiled back at him, and before she realized it, she blurted out, “I love you.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“After all, how could you scream if you weren’t even breathing?”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“Would it be better if she couldn’t see what was happening? The end was coming, and she’d rather let it all end in the dark. It would be more merciful that way.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“Blood was hard to get out. Blood was forever. So what’s the point?”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“She wasn’t that woman anymore, but she was still a woman and they were still men, and that still mattered. Probably even more so now.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
“She wished she knew, and not knowing made it somehow much, much worse.”
― Sam Sisavath, quote from The Purge of Babylon
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“With all my imperfections on my head," I joined the crew, and we hauled out into the stream, and came to anchor for the night.”
― Richard Henry Dana Jr., quote from Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
“nothing furnishes a room like books”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“You're living your days at the moment how a sheep grazes, meandering, not engaged with anything much.”
― Nikki Gemmell, quote from The Bride Stripped Bare
“When his troops reached the rocket camp, they found almost everything of value gone and Stalin was reportedly furious. “This is absolutely intolerable,” he said, according to reliable defectors. “We defeated Nazi armies; we occupied Berlin and Peenemünde, but the Americans got the rocket engineers. What could be more revolting and more inexcusable? How and why was this allowed to happen?” In a way, the Red Army’s race toward Peenemünde was symbolic: It was, without anyone knowing it, the beginning of the race for outer space, or what Winston Churchill once called “the wizard war.”
― David Halberstam, quote from The Fifties
“Perhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for communication. Ambiguity seems to be an essential, indispensable element for the transfer of information from one place to another by words, where matters of real importance are concerned. It is often necessary, for meaning to come through, that there be an almost vague sense of strangeness and askewness. Speechless animals and cells cannot do this. The specifically locked-on antigen at the surface of a lymphocyte does not send the cell off in search of something totally different; when a bee is tracking sugar by polarized light, observing the sun as though consulting his watch, he does not veer away to discover an unimaginable marvel of a flower. Only the human mind is designed to work in this way, programmed to drift away in the presence of locked-on information, straying from each point in a hunt for a better, different point.
If it were not for the capacity for ambiguity, for the sensing of strangeness, the words in all languages provide, we would have no way of recognizing the layers of counterpoint in meaning, and we might be spending all our time sitting on stone fences, staring into the sun. To be sure, we would always have had some everyday use to make of the alphabet, and we might have reached the same capacity for small talk, but it is unlikely that we would have been able to evolve from words to Bach. The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.”
― Lewis Thomas, quote from The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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