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One Year After (After, #2) QUOTES

One Year After (After, #2) 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 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)

3 " 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)

4 " one life, he had spared others anguish and deterred a descent into anarchy. "

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

5 " Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place. "

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

6 " We are asleep again, while North Korea tests nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, Iran is not far behind, and ISIS, a movement as brutal and psychotic as Nazism, emerges. It had never been my intention to write a sequel to One Second After, but wherever I spoke that was always a question: What happens next? I resisted for five years; my publisher, Tom Doherty, and his senior editor Bob Gleason dropping major “hints” that they wanted more. During those years I did give them a book which "

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

7 " is a game as ancient as recorded history. Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place. "

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

8 " The only thing ensuring our security is the certain knowledge that our nuclear boomers are still out there under the seas ready with swift retaliation if "

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

9 " there is another launch against the United States.” “Wish we had made that message clearer before the Day,” Makala said softly, her voice filled with bitterness. "

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