Pender laughed. “Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It’s all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.
It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.
Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.
Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
But then he put aside the awkward encounter, which his mind allowed him to do quite easily. He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit.
Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.
But the fact is, as one grows close to death, the only thing that matters is family. I hope you can see that.
Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget.
It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light.
john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that
In some ways, it was far easier to be bad than good. When you’re bad, you don’t care what happens to anyone other than yourself. When you’re trying to do god, you have to worry about everyone.
In his mind progress was always to be measured in inches, especially when you didn’t have yards or even feet of success to show off.
She apparently didn’t expect any trouble but she also never expected everything to go perfectly either. That was a good rule to live by Robie knew. Because perfection was rarely the case in the field.
It’s the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else’s place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it’s easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.
So the criminals win, that’s what you’re saying? For now they do. But it’s a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.
you ask too many questions,” snapped Cletus.I kept my gaze on Roman. “that’s because I get too few answers.
Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory
The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.