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Robert Brockway QUOTES

1 " Also unfortunately, Congress is far too busy asking if baseball players are really as strong as they seem and trying to choke bankers with wads of cash to grant more funds to such trifling matters as the avoidance of space bullets, so they won't give NASA the money "

― Robert Brockway

2 " As human beings we are all keenly aware of our own mortality, but although we know we all have to die eventually, there is some small amount of comfort in knowing that maybe it’s something we could all do together, as a team. There is, after all, no “I” in “apocalypse. "

― Robert Brockway , Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead

3 " This is boring, my brain said; nothing to see here. Let’s do something else. Let’s start a fire. "

― Robert Brockway , The Unnoticeables (Vicious Circuit, #1)

4 " Things Canadians Are Good At • Politeness • Hockey • Syrup Things Canadians Are Bad At • Basketball • “Yo momma” jokes • Starting wars Things Canadians Are Questionable At • Wrangling tornadoes "

― Robert Brockway , Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead

5 " We don’t do this because we can win. We don’t do this because nobody else will. We don’t do this because it’s the right thing to do. We do it because: Fuck them. Fuck people who use their power to dick over whoever they can get away with dicking over. It doesn’t matter if that guy’s a high school teacher, or a Wall Street broker, or a cop, or a demon inside the shell of a store brand Iggy Pop. You have to punch him in the face because he deserves to be punched in the fucking face. End of story. "

― Robert Brockway , The Empty Ones (Vicious Circuit, #2)

6 " I fucking love Scooby-Doo. That Velma girl—she has it going on. That tight sweater, short skirt, and knee socks? You can’t tell me she got dressed in the dark. Some folks, they got it out for Daphne. But you know to look at her—she’s one of those girls that talks it up all day, but when it comes down to lights-out she just lies there and acts like she’s doing you a favor. Velma? You know she takes off those glasses and she gets to work. "

― Robert Brockway , The Unnoticeables (Vicious Circuit, #1)

7 " It was like a thousand beautiful voices singing to drown out a million more screaming. "

― Robert Brockway , The Unnoticeables (Vicious Circuit, #1)

8 " Reach into your pocket, a few taps on your smartphone, and you can know anything. We are all omniscient. I have the complete repository of human history sitting two inches away from my dick all day, every day. "

― Robert Brockway

9 " Sure, it’s gallows humor, but when you’re actually up on the gallows, you just call it humor. "

― Robert Brockway , Kill All Angels (The Vicious Circuit #3)

10 " you asked him, he could only say he loved her, and that he did not know what that word meant before her, and that he would forget what it meant after her. "

― Robert Brockway , Kill All Angels (The Vicious Circuit #3)

11 " Nadine. The simple reduction of Nadine’s primary core self could shunt her potential energy where it would better serve. Instead of living (pointlessly), Nadine could provide 1.2 terajoules of energy to an active volcano on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean. Just enough power to tip it over the erupting point, eventually creating 762 square miles of new land. That land would erode in time, but if the goal is survival, the land would last through epochs, while Nadine would last a paltry few years longer on the street. The untapped energy called “Nadine” could foster the survival of a much larger entity for hundreds of thousands of years. Or "

― Robert Brockway , The Unnoticeables (Vicious Circuit, #1)

12 " This book is dedicated to you, the reader. I spent years digging this shaky tunnel down into the most diseased and horrible pits of my soul, then asked you to come visit. You said, “yes.” That was very stupid, and you’ll almost certainly die down here, but thank you. "

― Robert Brockway , Kill All Angels (The Vicious Circuit #3)

13 " The entire house was guest soap. Technically functional, but frowned upon to use. "

― Robert Brockway , Kill All Angels (The Vicious Circuit #3)

14 " No,” Gus answered immediately. “The needs of the gears are persistent. Without constant lubrication, they will seize. They will not process fuel. Without energy to turn them, the stars will no longer burn in the void. Without the unending warmth of the machine, without the rotation of the gears, the cold and the still will take everything. You do not understand it. You will not accept it. But we fight against entropy. We fight for motion. We fight for the machine. We are bits in that glorious engine, all of us. Even you. Even your friends. There may not be a final goal for us. We do not get the luxury of an end point. There is only maintenance, and our toil is infinite. But the work is good. The gears must turn. No, Carey. There is never enough blood.” That "

― Robert Brockway , The Unnoticeables (Vicious Circuit, #1)

15 " You only fall when you look down, Coyote. "

― Robert Brockway , Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity

16 " We don’t do this because we can win. We don’t do this because nobody else will. We don’t do this because it’s the right thing to do, or it’s the only thing we can do. We do it because: Fuck them. Fuck people who use their power to dick over whoever they can get away with dicking over. It doesn’t matter if that guy’s a high school teacher, or a Wall Street broker, or a cop, or a demon inside the shell of a store-brand Iggy Pop. You have to punch him in the face because he deserves to be punched in the fucking face. End of story. "

― Robert Brockway , The Empty Ones (Vicious Circuit, #2)

17 " A roster,for example, is a lovely machine - who doesn't love its warm, crispy ejaculations? "

― Robert Brockway , Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead

18 " There are easier ways to kill a man, of course. And there are even better ways to blow his arse to atoms. But this one is mine. I designed it. Nobody murders the same way I do. That’s a point of pride for me, mate. I’m telling you this because I need for you to understand: That’s how bored I got with killing folk -- I had to design and construct a whole new type of weapon to do it with, just to keep meself interested. That bugger out there? He was totally encased in industrial impact coating. You’re totally encased in what looks like a secondhand polyester jacket, ten years out of fashion. We got an understanding? "

― Robert Brockway , Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity

19 " Plus, if a vat-grown pig contracts heavy metal poisoning, suffers catastrophic cell decay, or has an embolism during the return trip, who gives a shit? Even QC's eyes no longer welled up when the vat-pigs inevitably squealed and keeled over. It was a matter of exposure: Witness a tragedy every day, and it becomes routine. "

― Robert Brockway , Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity

20 " what may start with a harmless frog leaping just an inch higher could well end up with a sky eternally darkened by sinister patrols of helicopter sharks. "

― Robert Brockway , Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead