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Joseph R. Lallo QUOTES

Joseph R. Lallo QUOTES

1 " Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wollof "

― Joseph R. Lallo

2 " Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wolloff "

― Joseph R. Lallo , The Book of Deacon (The Book of Deacon, #1)

3 " Many people believe they know true darkness, but until it has been experienced it cannot be imagined. Without even a flicker of light, the mind begins to play tricks. There is a constant feeling that there is a wall before you, that you must stop. The eyes open as wide as they can, hungry for light. The only thing that helps is to shut them tight. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , The Book of Deacon (The Book of Deacon, #1)

4 " ennui. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , The Battle of Verril (The Book of Deacon, #3)

5 " the hand has programmable fingerprints, a vibration motor, data interface capabilities-” “Wait. A vibration motor in your hand? Why?” “I’m a man, and I’m alone on the planet. Figure it out. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , Bypass Gemini (Big Sigma, #1)

6 " A nightmare is the best kind of dream. The only one that brings happiness when it ends. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , The Book of Deacon (The Book of Deacon, #1)

7 " Art is supposed to tell a story. It is supposed to be a piece of the soul that created it. Art is supposed to be alive, vibrant. It is supposed to speak directly to the spirit. To say things words alone could never say. Art is the essence of being. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , The Battle of Verril (The Book of Deacon, #3)

8 " Well, it just goes to show you,” the inventor said as he flipped through the pages of notes and ideas, “It is easy to think outside the box when you aren’t smart enough to know where the box is. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , Bypass Gemini (Big Sigma, #1)

9 " Sorry to burst your bubble, lass, but the truth is important. Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , The Book of Deacon (The Book of Deacon, #1)

10 " It was one lesson that she could not bring herself to learn. If someone was going to tell a lie, they would tell it with a smile. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , The Book of Deacon (The Book of Deacon, #1)

11 " If one does not believe entirely in one's choices, then one has already failed. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , The Great Convergence (The Book of Deacon, #2)

12 " You reap what you sow in this world. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , The Book of Deacon (The Book of Deacon, #1)

13 " People like Lain have lived in the dark so long, when they see light, they tend to close their eyes. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , The Great Convergence (The Book of Deacon, #2)

14 " The value of the sword did not concern her--at least, not at this moment. Regardless of the price it might fetch in the future, at the moment it represented a far greater find. It was the means to extract the only thing that mattered to her right now, the food that would give her the strength to leave this frozen wasteland. It represented life itself. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , The Book of Deacon (The Book of Deacon, #1)

15 " The problem with engineers today is that they don’t think on paper. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , Bypass Gemini (Big Sigma, #1)

16 " all of my bases covered. You assume responsibility for violations of local, regional, global, intrasystem, interstellar, intergalactic and interdimensional law, civil, religious, or military. I’m also not responsible for loss of life and limb, property damage, domestic disputes, engineered biological human dieback, nuclear fallout, violations of causality, cascading sub-quantum misalignment, hastening of cosmic heat death, rampant AI, accelerated climate change, geomagnetic reversal, vacuum metastability events, total existence failure, gray goo scenario, red goo scenario--that’s a nasty one--tectonic inversion-- "

― Joseph R. Lallo , Bypass Gemini (Big Sigma, #1)

17 " Honestly, people always talk about ‘normal’ as though it is something to aspire to, but that’s a load of crap. Normal isn’t an achievement, it’s a baseline. Normal is something you end up as if you never get around to doing something interesting. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , Bypass Gemini (Big Sigma, #1)

18 " blood from the gash had seeped through her shirt and the blanket, pooling on the floor. Looking at it intensified the dizziness that its loss had caused. With the most pressing of her concerns attended to, Myranda set her mind to the task of escaping. She assessed the situation. Of course, her pack was gone. A pull on the door revealed it to be solidly secured from the outside. The windows were all small and near to the high ceiling. There would be no escape through any of those. The sole window large enough to allow her to escape was the shattered stained glass window behind the pulpit, but it was even further out of her reach. She had to try the door "

― Joseph R. Lallo , The Book of Deacon (The Book of Deacon, #1)

19 " Honestly. The spirits could be a bit more straightforward in their messages. If they truly wanted us to know what they were saying, they would say it more clearly. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , The Book of Deacon (The Book of Deacon, #1)

20 " Nondisclosure agreements and exclusivity agreements. Think like a corporation, lady. They've proven much better at enslaving the masses and pushing home their agenda than all of the terrorists in the history the human race put together. "

― Joseph R. Lallo , Unstable Prototypes (Big Sigma, #2)