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Sylvain Neuvel QUOTES

1 " You were made for a particular purpose, but you can be anything you want. Anything, including that. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Waking Gods (Themis Files, #2)

2 " I think people are scared, and dumb, and selfish on their own, but put enough of them together and they'll be half-decent "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

3 " You will not die of pain, but you will never get used to it. Pain is unique in that it does not show habituation or neural adaptation, like smell, or touch. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Waking Gods (Themis Files, #2)

4 " We’re not the greatest thing in the universe, certainly not the smartest. Seems logical there’d be a great many things in it we can’t comprehend. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Waking Gods (Themis Files, #2)

5 " Stories are there to entertain, preserve history, or serve a societal purpose of some kind. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

6 " I came to realize that good and evil were out of my reach, that time was the only thing I had any control over. I could buy time, create intervals. I could not truly make the world a better place, but I could make part of it a better place for a short while. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Waking Gods (Themis Files, #2)

7 " Perhaps, deep down inside that rugged shell of yours, there is a little girl desperately waiting for her Prince Charming to propose.”

“Of course there is. Only until now, I'd been pretty successful at keeping that little brat's mouth shut.”

“What will your answer be if he asks?”

“You're funny. He can't ask. I'll find a way to be bitchy enough for the next forty years so that perfect moment never comes.”

“You seem to have a good handle on that little girl after all. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

8 " I’ve crossed that line we’re not supposed to cross. I died. And I’m still here. I cheated death. I took away God’s power.
I killed God and I feel empty inside. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Waking Gods (Themis Files, #2)

9 " The aesthetics aren't merely a side note, they're as important as anything else. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

10 " There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

11 " I wish I knew where this journey will take us, but I don't. All I know is that this is bigger than me, my self-doubt, or any crisis of conscience. I now truly realize how profoundly insignificant I am compared to all this. Why does that make me feel so much better? "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

12 " Irony is not one of my favorite modes of communication, but I can still recognize it. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

13 " I suppose no one ever thinks that they're close minded. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

14 " They have me in a bunk next to this guy, Bilal. He’s just a year older than me. He—this is nuts—he studied plant biology in Helsinki. He worked in a bar to pay for school. There’s nothing special about him. Not his DNA. He’s not even Muslim. He’s a Hindu, but he was born in Pakistan, so…It’s pathetic. These people can’t even do racist right. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Only Human (Themis Files, #3)

15 " —Say she gets what she wants, and the regions give her more power. It would likely be temporary, right?

—Probably.

—Well, my guess is she doesn’t want it to be temporary. She’ll want to hit them hard. Arrest as many people as she can. Make sure no one dares to even put up a sign after that.

—Wouldn’t that just encourage the people blowing up things to blow up more things?

—Well, she’d have to get them too. All of them.

—On the planet? You can’t defeat terrorism on a whole planet, it’s not an army you can crush. That’s why it’s called terrorism. There’d always be one person left somewhere to blow up more things. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Only Human (Themis Files, #3)

16 " —Finally, he spotted an Asian carp coming their way. The carp wasn’t as big as the elephantine tilapia he had once wrestled, but Lisa was young, and Jeff figured that vanquishing a midsize carp would be enough for someone her age. Jeff hugged his baby girl, gave her a big kiss, and threw her off the rock, right in the path of the bottom feeder.
The moral of the story is—

—Wait! Wait! What happened? What happened to Lisa?

—The carp ate her, of course. She was just a baby! You didn’t really think she was gonna make it, did you?

—I…Yes, I did… "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Only Human (Themis Files, #3)

17 " Hey! Can you hear me? I’m talking to the American asshole who just told my daughter she was going to die. She says you put something inside her head, some sort of explosive. If that’s true, you better hope that thing doesn’t go off because if it does, you might as well kill yourself. I know what you’re thinking. There’s a good chance Moscow will do the same thing and kill me. There’s always a possibility the Chinese or Koreans will kill me, but I wouldn’t bet on that. You see, I’m not the easiest person to be with. I can be a bit of a dick sometimes, just ask my daughter. My point is if people keep me around, it’s not because of my charming personality, it’s because I have legs that bend the wrong way, and that’s kind of useful if you also happen to have Themis. So on the off chance that I make it through this, I want you to listen to me very carefully. I don’t give a shit who this robot belongs to an hour from now. I will fucking kill you. I will mow down whatever place you work at and the house you live in. I will kill everyone you’ve ever known, your high-school teacher, people you play softball with. I will march down Washington Avenue and turn DC into a fucking sandbox. I will end you and everything you hold dear. There. Will. Be. No United States when I’m done with you, and there is nothing, not a goddamn thing, you can do to stop me. Do you hear me? DO YOU HEAR ME, MOTHERFUCKER? ANSWER ME! "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Only Human (Themis Files, #3)

18 " Family has a way of bringing out the worst in people. Every people. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

19 " If you fall in love with someone, there’s a good chance the person won’t love you back. Hatred, though, is usually mutual. If you despise someone, it’s pretty much a given they’re also not your biggest fan. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

20 " It would make things easier for both of us, especially for you, if we could forgo the part of this conversation where you take me for a complete idiot... "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)