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Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1) QUOTES

Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1) QUOTES

1 " His voice was deep and gruff, like someone's normal voice that had been rubbed repeatedly across five miles of hot asphalt. "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)

2 " Besides those that we know are definitely untrue, some of history's greatest storytellers and historians may be complete liars. History is written by the victors and stories last because they are remembered, retold, and enjoyed. "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)

3 " Death ray?” scoffed Victor. “Death ray? Everyone thinks that inventors just have death rays just sitting around. ‘Oh you’re an inventor? Have you made a death ray yet?’ ‘How’s the inventing going? What’s your death ray like?’ I’m sick of it. "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)

4 " I miss the old days, and I mean the old old days when there were some really awesome birth stories. When Hercules was still in his crib, he was attacked by two snakes sent by Hera, the unhappy wife of his father. Wee Baby Hercules strangled those two snakes by himself with nothing but his bare hands. Yes, Wee Baby Hercules was more of a badass than most of us ever reach in our entire lifespan. "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)

5 " Before the cabin simply sat innocently, but now it was hunched over, peering down at me and the fire. It was now a strange monstrosity almost ready to scuttle away on a multitude of wooden insectoid legs at any moment. I was positive I wasn’t going in there; not while it was like this. It would eat me. "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)

6 " To all the books unwritten, all the songs unheard, all the stories untold, all the dreams left in sleep. "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)

7 " She was currently telling me about her cat, Admiral Fluffynuggins and the cute way he drinks water. Normally I don’t call someone boring just because they like to talk about their beloved pet. But if I have to wonder if their pet outranks me or if it possibly fought in the Great War, I draw the line. "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)

8 " I watched as that dark blob walked out into traffic, then was violently struck by a car. Yup, that's me. I was somewhat proud of humanity when I saw that a few people immediately came over to me to see if I was okay, rather than stealing my wallet or completely ignoring me. "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)

9 " You have a death ray so when your enemies invade your secret lair, you pull out it out and you can swing it back and forth in a swath of doom, obliterating all your enemies while laughing maniacally! "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)

10 " When will people reach a state of enlightenment where they realize it’s so much better to dislike people for individual reasons, rather than their arbitrary grouping, a cultural background, or the color of their skin? "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)

11 " Do I believe there is an international conspiracy created by intergalactic lizards to keep us all addicted to television, promote the brainwashing elements of antibacterial soaps, and support the still-alive head of JFK in drawing Excalibur and waging the last noble war against the minions of a cybernetic Walt Disney? "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)

12 " I considered that maybe they were storing invisible objects in the hangar. That would explain the low security. Nobody could steal what they could not see. I looked around for Wonder Woman's invisible jet. "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)

13 " Wait," I asked, "did the Russians have giant robots too?" I imagined a gigantic robotic Lenin that opened his mouth to shoot flames. "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)

14 " It turns out hobo fighting does not build the correct muscle mass for mech combat. "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)

15 " This was the hat of all hats. Two top hats directly on top of each other, then a third off-kilter on top of that. That’s the type of headgear you start a religion with. "

― Dennis Liggio , Damned Lies (Damned Lies #1)