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Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4) QUOTES

Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4) QUOTES

1 " Sometimes there aren't words, Benny knew. Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shines. Benny had left his footprints in the dust of that place. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

2 " Quick-Draw Carl, who still wore the broad-brimmed brown hat of his legendary dad, Sheriff Rick. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

3 " But there never was a country, no matter how noble or well-intentioned, that wasn't infected by a greedy and power-hungry few. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

4 " Benny Imura sat in the dark and spoke with monsters.
It was like that every day.
It had become the pattern of his life. Shadows and blood. And monsters.
Everywhere.
Monsters. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

5 " This was a better place. Not just this new town, but this new world. So much brighter and cleaner than the old world of rot and ruin, fire and ash. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

6 " Life don't never get easy, does it? It just keeps getting harder in stranger ways. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

7 " Love was a pathway to cruel pain. It was the arrow that Fate always kept aimed at your back. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

8 " How deep inside your own heartbreak do you have to fall before there's no outward sign of life? "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

9 " Because secrecy can become an addiction. That's been a problem as long as people have tried to covet power for themselves. Sure, governments need to keep some secrets, but too often the people inside the government create for themselves the illusion that because they know things nobody else does, it makes them more powerful. That kind of thinking creates a kind of contempt for anyone on the outside. It's born from a belief that their own power will diminish in direct proportion to the transparency of their actions. So secrets become the currency that buys them membership into a club so exclusive that their agendas are never shared, and the value of what the hold is measured only from a first-person perspective. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

10 " Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

11 " Know your enemy. The more you know about them, the less easily they can surprise you. And by studying them you might identify a weakness or vulnerability. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

12 " Life is truly weird...And it's not getting any less weird the farther I get from home. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

13 " There are such moments in a life. Solitary seconds on which the reality of what life means pivots and turns from a dead end toward a road of untrodden grass that stretches on forever. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

14 " ...told me to stop being a stupid town boy. She said that if I ever tried to go away from her again, she'd break my legs. She's very romantic, that girl. Sweet as a kitten...if a kitten was a Siberian tiger with mood issues. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

15 " There's an old military saying...If at first you don't succeed, call in an air strike. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

16 " Well, she sure don't hold the deed on grief and loss, son. We all been mussed and mauled by bad times. But that girl's done gone and shut down. I met gray people with more personality." She tapped her temple with a finger. "I'm beginning to suspect there ain't nobody home. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

17 " What is the good of becoming strong if love bares your flesh to the teeth of misfortune? Why risk loving anyone or anything when life is so frail a thing that a strong wind can blow it out of your experience? "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

18 " Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shines. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

19 " No one replied to that. It was a hopeful statement, but hope seemed to be lying dead somewhere out in the Ruin. For Benny, hope had died with a little girl back at Sanctuary. He looked for some inside his heart, but all he found there was a dark and murderous rage. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)

20 " He was born crazy...He's been losing ground ever since. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)