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William R. Forstchen QUOTES

1 " John’s standard maneuver to ask someone to help him, especially in a moment of crisis, "

― William R. Forstchen , One Year After (After, #2)

2 " She'd always talk about how great Gandhi was. I'd tell her the only reason Gandhi survived after his first protest was that he was dealing with the Brits. If Stalin had been running India, he'd of been dead in a second, his name forgotten. "

― William R. Forstchen , One Second After (After, #1)

3 " she and Ben chattered away to each other in the language of mothers with their toddlers; the two understood every word exchanged, while the rest of the world just listened, smiled, and didn’t understand a single word of the happy gibberish. "

― William R. Forstchen , One Year After (After, #2)

4 " One second after an EMP attack, it will be too late to ask two simple questions: what should we have done to prevent the attack and why didn't we do it? "

― William R. Forstchen , One Second After (After, #1)

5 " Murderer of Vuka and Jumadi, see now how Tugars can die. "

― William R. Forstchen

6 " America is like an exotic hothouse plant. It can only live now in the artificial environment of vaccinations, sterilization, and antibiotics we started creating a hundred or more years ago. "

― William R. Forstchen , One Second After (After, #1)

7 " The enemy will never attack you where you are strongest. . . . He will attack where you are weakest. If you do not know your weakest point, be certain, your enemy will. "

― William R. Forstchen , One Second After (After, #1)

8 " John, you look like crap warmed over."
He nodded, walking into the conference room for what had now become their daily meeting.
Thanks, Tom. I needed that. "

― William R. Forstchen , One Second After (After, #1)

9 " We were spoiled unlike any generation in history, and we forgot completely just how dependent we were on the juice flowing through the wires, the buttons doing something when we pushed them. "

― William R. Forstchen , One Second After (After, #1)

10 " Amazing- the years of political correctness pumped out of our colleges became an education of national guilt. "

― William R. Forstchen , The Final Day (After, #3)

11 " As was said by Thomas Jefferson, “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. "

― William R. Forstchen , One Second After (After, #1)

12 " To put it coldly, my friends, all the ones who should have died years ago, would have died years ago without beta-blockers, stents, angioplasties, pacemakers, exotic medications, well, now they’re dying all at once.” John "

― William R. Forstchen , One Second After (After, #1)

13 " He felt a deep swelling of pride but also anguish. It was the torment all loving parents feel when they see their child making a difficult and perhaps dangerous decision as an adult when, in memory, they still see the small innocent child of years long gone. "

― William R. Forstchen , One Year After (After, #2)

14 " Like any crowd in a democracy they were looking for someone to vent their anger on, "

― William R. Forstchen

15 " sura 3.28 of the Koran that, “We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.” And, of course, there was sura 3.54, which declared that the best deceiver of all was Allah himself. "

― William R. Forstchen , Day of Wrath

16 " We finally figured out that when you set off a nuke in space, that’s when the EMP effect really kicks in, as the energy burst hits the upper atmosphere. It becomes like a pebble triggering an avalanche, the electrical disturbances magnifying. It’s in the report. It’s called the ‘Compton Effect. "

― William R. Forstchen , One Second After (After, #1)

17 " For every person who died in the westward migration prior to the Civil War from Native Americans attacking, the stuff of American legends, thousands, maybe tens of thousands died from water holes polluted by cholera and typhoid . . . but that doesn’t make for a good movie. "

― William R. Forstchen , One Second After (After, #1)

18 " The two “idiots” Ginger and Zach, both golden retrievers, both beautiful-looking dogs—and both thicker than bricks when it came to brains—had been out sunning on the bedroom deck. They stood up and barked madly, as if he were an invader. Though if he were a real invader they’d have cowered in terror and stained the carpet as they fled into Jennifer’s room to hide. "

― William R. Forstchen , One Second After (After, #1)

19 " I am an historian of warfare; I often describe my job as similar to that of an oncologist. I study that which kills and hope that one day humanity will find a cure. "

― William R. Forstchen , Day of Wrath

20 " To become aware, no matter how disturbing that reality is, is the first step to the resistance that we must be prepared to make in response. "

― William R. Forstchen , Day of Wrath