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Ebola K (Ebola K, #1) QUOTES

Ebola K (Ebola K, #1) QUOTES

1 " Ebola, that little bastard of a bug, had popped up earlier in the summer in Sierra Leone in the worst outbreak in history. Was it possible that global warming had changed something important about the ecological balance in Africa and turned it into an optimal, continent-sized petri dish for breeding that virus? "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

2 " not because they are based on any kind of fact. I’m not that smart, but I’m smart enough to know to ask questions. And sometimes all you have to do is ask questions and things that aren’t true fall apart under examination. "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

3 " Statistical anomalies are interesting, and they may mean something, but you know if you go into a problem with a bias toward finding a certain solution, even in random data, you’re going to find a pattern that supports your solution. All you have to do is look long enough. "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

4 " He was a kid with a paper route when the 1976 outbreak hit the news. Every day when he folded his papers prior to delivering them on his bike, he read the headlines. He saw frightening stories of bleeding, suffering, and of whole African villages wiped out. And an American media, in the infancy of its sensationalist tendencies, taught him a new phrase for fear—hemorrhagic fever. "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

5 " Skiing and shooting?” Joan laughed. “Are you kidding? In the same event?” Olivia often wondered what it was about most Americans that made them so laughably proud of their ignorance of any sport that wasn’t American-style football. "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

6 " disease transmitted through bodily fluids "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

7 " I’m not that smart, but I’m smart enough to know to ask questions. And sometimes all you have to do is ask questions and things that aren’t true fall apart under examination. That’s all. "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

8 " I’m not that smart, but I’m smart enough to know to ask questions. And sometimes all you have to do is ask questions and things that aren’t true fall apart under examination. "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

9 " But just as life in America has a way of killing the soul with vapid pleasures, life in Africa broke the heart through random brutality. Austin closed his eyes and choked back a tear as he saw a parade of smiling faces of those who lived in the village. Many of those people were in the clinic, and he had been carrying out buckets of their fluids all day. Their eyes were desperate with pain. They knew they were dying. Few of them had any hope. Ebola was that kind of killer. "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

10 " My son spent the summer of 2013 in Uganda and was the inspiration for one of the book’s characters, Austin Cooper. I was so moved by some of the stories he came back with that I started to write them out as a record of the events. But as things turn out in my mind, the true stories got sucked into a series of what-if questions along with the concern I’ve had with Ebola since I first heard of it after the 1976 outbreaks in Zaire. And of course that was rolled into another of my favorite subjects, post-apocalyptic fiction. "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

11 " understand, I will forbid it. This is not a decision for the family to make. It is a medical decision.” “You forbid it?” Najid laughed. “You are mistaken, "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

12 " I should have closed the door.” Dr. Wheeler smiled widely enough to let her know he was joking. “CDC doctors have lots of groupies. "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

13 " Bringing Ebola to America on purpose. What the fuck kind of craziness was that? "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

14 " groupies. "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

15 " And whenever he asked himself that one question—what wouldn’t he do for the welfare of his children—the answer was always the same. There was pretty much nothing he wouldn’t do for his children’s sake. "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

16 " But just as life in America has a way of killing the soul with vapid pleasures, life in Africa broke the heart through random brutality. "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

17 " be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without express "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)

18 " Every time a reader leaves a review, an aspiring author gets a new pencil. Yeah, I know that line sucks but I’ve been in front of my computer proofreading for something like fourteen hours straight trying to get this book published "

― Bobby Adair , Ebola K (Ebola K, #1)