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John Birmingham QUOTES

1 " Apart from Scientologists and born-again Christians, junkies are probably the worst people in the world to live with. Even other junkies will tell you that. "

― John Birmingham

2 " 300 million people turned into jelly by The Wave and Rupert Murdoch wasn't one of them. There is no god. "

― John Birmingham , Angels of Vengeance (The Disappearance, #3)

3 " When a parent dies, for those left behind it can feel as though half the sky has fallen. My father was the sheltering sky, and beneath his mild firmament no storm ever raged, no hard rain fell. "

― John Birmingham , On Father

4 " the rumor you most want to believe is the rumor you should be most skeptical of. "

― John Birmingham , Designated Targets (Axis of Time, #2)

5 " an intriguing puzzle that diverted him from the unbearable burden of living. HIJMS "

― John Birmingham , Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time, #1)

6 " The best lack all conviction while the worst are full passionate intensity, "

― John Birmingham , After America (The Disappearance, #2)

7 " My Dearest Brother I hope you get this message, for I do not think we shall ever meet again. You will know by now that my ship has arrived here, but we were captured by the Germans during our incapacity after the Emergence… Jones frowned at the word, but having materialized in the Atlantic and been taken prisoner, Philippe would have used the Axis terminology without thinking. He read on. I have little time. I am watched so closely by the Nazis I could not send this message before now, and even now I cannot send it directly. I have encrypted a pulse to go out with the launch of the missiles on Hawaii. I can only pray it finds a Fleetnet node somewhere and eventually finds you. I have done what I can to impair the fascists’ plans but I fear it is not enough. There is no more time. When they discover what I have done my life will be forfeit, but I shall do what I can before the end. I do not know if you will ever see Monique again but if you do, please make her understand that I did not dishonor my family or the Republic. Vive la France. And good-bye, brother. Philippe "

― John Birmingham , Final Impact (Axis of Time, #3)

8 " Grief is an ocean, fathomless and wide, and on the surface its most impelling forces arrive in waves "

― John Birmingham , On Father

9 " Those men and women were not press-ganged into service. It was not just a choice for them. It was and remains a calling. And sir, no nation on earth can hope to survive long without people who will answer that call. No nation can hope to survive if it does not respect what they have offered and do the hard things that history sometimes asks of us. Sometimes, Mister President, there is no answer but blood. "

― John Birmingham , After America (The Disappearance, #2)

10 " Plus, it’s an optimistic sort of music. People want that at the moment. Who needs death metal when you’ve got the Nazis?” They "

― John Birmingham , Final Impact (Axis of Time, #3)

11 " Do you have a particularly small penis, sir? Is that why you feel the need to compensate for your inadequacies with this behavior? If so, let me assure you, it didn’t work. You still have a very small penis, and now you look like an idiot, too.” De "

― John Birmingham , Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time, #1)

12 " But later, standing in triage, surrounded by a pile of bloody rags that had been cut from the body of an eight-year-old boy who was now in surgery, having a gangrenous leg amputated, she felt the black heat rising inside her head again. It made her wish she’d gone with Cooper. What the hell is wrong with people that they’d do these things—to little kids? It "

― John Birmingham , Designated Targets (Axis of Time, #2)

13 " She wasn’t sure what he meant by ‘surquedry’, other than probably meaning he thought she was a lippy bitch, "

― John Birmingham , The Golden Minute (A Girl in Time #2)

14 " Her combat goggles, a topflight set of Ray-Ban Warpigs, "

― John Birmingham , Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time, #1)

15 " Yes, Prime Minister,” said MacArthur, “it’s a warship. Sticking out of a mountain, thousands of feet above sea level.” Curtin "

― John Birmingham , Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time, #1)

16 " he looked like an angry, underfed golem carved from oatmeal, egg yolks, and rancid spam—about three hundred years ago. "

― John Birmingham , The Cruel Stars (The Cruel Stars, #1)

17 " It’s Pearl Harbour, sir. But with muffins. "

― John Birmingham , Zero Day Code (End of Days, #1)

18 " These people had been at war for nearly two decades. It was only natural that they would be completely inured to its savageries by now, "

― John Birmingham , Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time, #1)

19 " As we are preparing to land the captain asks that you return your tray tables to the upright position, unfasten your seat belts, and jump out of the helicopter. We’d like to thank you for flying with the U.S. Navy, and hope you will choose to travel with us again in the future.” “The far fucking future,” added Harford. “Amen,” said Ivanov. As "

― John Birmingham , Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time, #1)

20 " Smith wiped grass and dirt from his butt and scowled at their surroundings as though they hadn't just escaped a fascist clusterfuckturducken of epic scale and infinite suckage. "

― John Birmingham , A Girl in Time (A Girl in Time #1)