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The Limpet Syndrome (How to Survive the Afterlife #1) QUOTES

The Limpet Syndrome (How to Survive the Afterlife #1) QUOTES

1 " There are many things in science that were developed because it was possible rather than desirable. Humanity's curiosity will almost certainly be its downfall. "

― Tony Moyle , The Limpet Syndrome (How to Survive the Afterlife #1)

2 " Real power isn't the ability to harm or meddle, Real power is overcoming your frailty when every sinew of your mind tells you it's impossible. Real power is facing up to your problems when you want to hid from them. Real power is picking yourself up from a fall and redoubling your efforts. Real power is the strength to choose what is right. "

― Tony Moyle , The Limpet Syndrome (How to Survive the Afterlife #1)

3 " Emotion is not what makes us weak. It's what makes us human, The ability to care, even if people often do not. "

― Tony Moyle , The Limpet Syndrome (How to Survive the Afterlife #1)

4 " Before you deal out your moral judgement on me, perhaps you should ask yourself what you did. "

― Tony Moyle , The Limpet Syndrome (How to Survive the Afterlife #1)

5 " It was a paradox that, although he worked for the Prime Minister, Agent 15 knew far more about the way government worked than Byron did, and he wasn’t alone. There were hundreds of people that really controlled the country, silently manoeuvring it into position like the path of a giant container ship. Quite often the captain at the helm knew little about what was going on in the engine room, unless it was impossible for him not to know. This was one of those occasions. All concerned would have preferred if their activities remained concealed from the other in case the situation was made permanent. The Prime Minister knew now, and he did have the power to change it permanently. Unbeknown to him, they also had the power to remove him if they so wished. In a battle of hundreds against one, the power of one will generally lose. It was the first time in Byron’s premiership that he realised that the well-run ship was not being powered by him, just steered. "

― Tony Moyle , The Limpet Syndrome (How to Survive the Afterlife #1)

6 " had opened, it then "

― Tony Moyle , The Limpet Syndrome (How to Survive the Afterlife #1)

7 " through his incoherent babbling. “Absolutely none. Not only is it none, but also in the six months that you have worked here there isn’t a single person that doesn’t know you exist. Now is that because you have set the world alight with your talents?” Ian’s mouth opened but the words took too long to form. “Not quite,” offered Sandy. “In those six months, what have you managed to do? You’ve set fire to your own office because you were using a magnifying glass on a hot day to make the font size on your laptop look bigger. You’ve worn a badge into work that said, ‘Is that a gun in your pocket or are you pleased to see me?’ and you’ve destroyed a state-of-the-art prototype bugging device when you accidentally dropped it in your Diet Coke, costing the department tens of thousands of pounds, I might add. "

― Tony Moyle , The Limpet Syndrome (How to Survive the Afterlife #1)

8 " Ian, it was me that gave you your nickname Cher.” Sandy had thought up the name after the Russian nuclear tragedy, something that resembled Ian Noble on an almost daily basis. "

― Tony Moyle , The Limpet Syndrome (How to Survive the Afterlife #1)