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The Big Sheep (The Big Sheep, #1) QUOTES

The Big Sheep (The Big Sheep, #1) QUOTES

1 " It was never a good thing when a bad guy started quoting Nietzsche. "

― Robert Kroese , The Big Sheep (The Big Sheep, #1)

2 " There’s no consensus in the mental health community on how to maintain the sanity of a person whose whole existence is fictional. "

― Robert Kroese , The Big Sheep (The Big Sheep, #1)

3 " How do we know Stephanie’s not just watering a friend’s plants?”
“Oh, she’s watering his plants all right,” said Keane.
“Congratulations,” I said. “That’s the worst euphemism for intercourse I’ve ever heard.”
“No,” said Keane. “Intercourse is the worst euphemism for intercourse you’ve ever heard. Normal people call it fucking. "

― Robert Kroese , The Big Sheep (The Big Sheep, #1)

4 " Human beings have evolved to be extremely good at identifying other individual humans. The race's survival depends on it. A guard lets the wrong person through the gate, and a whole settlement is wiped out. There are a million ways to tell two human beings apart. Not just appearance, either. Gait, odor, pheromones, speech patterns, dialect, nervous habits... even the way people breathe. Even parents of identical twins have little difficulty telling them apart, despite the fact that they are genetically identical and were raised in exactly the same environment, because of tiny differences in appearance and behavior that accrue as the result of differing experiences. The ability of one human to recognize another by appearance is especially acute when it comes to heterosexual males observing nubile females. There is nothing on Earth men pay more attention to than the appearance of sexually attractive young women. "

― Robert Kroese , The Big Sheep (The Big Sheep, #1)

5 " The crowd was getting hysterical, so I reached into my back pocket and flippe open my wallet to reveal my badge. "Official business," I announced. "Please leave the area." This had the desired effect; it deescalated the mood and prompted most of the crowd to disperse. It's funny what a plastic badge and a meaningless phrase can do. The authority of the police is anothe mass delusion that can be useful at times. I hadn't even needed to claim I was a cop; all it took was a couple of simple cues to invoke the delusion. "

― Robert Kroese , The Big Sheep (The Big Sheep, #1)

6 " He was like an idiot savant without the savant part. "

― Robert Kroese , The Big Sheep (The Big Sheep, #1)

7 " Even hypochondriacs get sick sometimes. "

― Robert Kroese , The Big Sheep (The Big Sheep, #1)