Sean Chercover > Quotes

“It isn't about miracles or proof or having God on speed dial. You want to be close to God? Reach down and help your neighbor. Faith without works is dead...”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Love is a verb.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“All that human energy, wasted, in response to the simple fact that we know we are going to die, and we don't know what happens after, and we're afraid that this life is all there is.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“there’s three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth. I can only give you mine.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“You know what”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Paranoia might leave you loveless and alone, Raoul once said, but it’ll keep you alive. Paranoia is your best friend.”
― Sean Chercover, The Devil's Game

“It isn’t about miracles or proof or having God on speed dial. You want to be close to God? Reach down and help your neighbor. Faith without works is dead…and maybe in the end, works is all that matters.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Throughout history, the men competing to shape the future had collected lost sheep to use as pawns in their game, cannon fodder in their wars.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“You know what the Jews say: Man plans and God laughs.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“the Song of Solomon. Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If one offered for love
all the wealth of one’s house,
it would be utterly scorned.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Remember—there’s only one God, everything else is metaphor.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“The pain was a houseguest you never invited, who doesn’t know when to leave and insists on retelling the story of how you met, over and over. A trip down a specific memory lane that I’d just as soon never take again.”
― Sean Chercover, Trigger City

“when the ethics of your profession conflict with your ethics as a human being, well, then there’s just something wrong with your profession”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Doesn’t matter if you run a barbershop, pharmacy, or gas station, remaining independent in today’s America is an uphill slog and the hill gets steeper with each passing year.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Taking the metaphors literally gives them a free pass to duck out of the real heavy lifting.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“The future ain’t what it used to be, but it’s coming right at us, regardless.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“There’s a story about a couple of Zen Buddhist monks. One day they leave the monastery and walk into town to buy vegetables. Along the way, there’s a stream they have to wade through, about thigh-deep. At the edge of the water, they come across a beautiful young woman wearing a lovely silk dress. One of the monks offers to carry her across, and she accepts. On the other side, they part ways with the girl and walk on in silence. About five miles down the road, the other monk says, ‘I don’t think it was right, what you did back there. You know we’re not supposed to have contact with women.’ The monk who helped the girl replies, ‘I put the girl down once we crossed the river—why are you still carrying her?”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“Television is a possum with a tapeworm, she thought; always hungry and it’ll feed on any garbage.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“To beat your enemy, you must understand what your enemy wants.”
― Sean Chercover, The Savior's Game

“Correlation does not imply causation,”
― Sean Chercover, The Savior's Game

“Today is a good day to die. But I’ve decided to stay alive until tomorrow”
― Sean Chercover, The Devil's Game

“at some point, we end up shifting focus to the freak show on the fringes of the story. And everybody loves a freak show. Then we start reporting the freak shows, even when there’s no real story attached.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“What I believe is we’re able to push the boundaries of our knowledge only so long as we keep our focus on phenomena itself, rejecting metaphysical conclusions and false certainty, however comforting they may be.”
― Sean Chercover, The Devil's Game

“many people, not just Americans, make the mistake of taking it neat. He explained how Scotch is made, saying, ‘Fer heaven’s sake, we add bloody water to it with great violence before we put it in the bloody bottle.’ He explained how adding a splash of water opens the spirit up, unfolding layers of complexity on the tongue.”
― Sean Chercover, The Devil's Game

“Look, there’s no debate among microbiologists—a pandemic is coming. Sooner or later one of these bugs is going to be stronger and faster than we are, and the way we continue to misuse antibiotics, it’ll be sooner.”
― Sean Chercover, The Devil's Game

“Papa Legba was a prominent loa in voodoo mythology. Guardian of the Crossroads, facilitator of communication between the material and spirit worlds,”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“I’m humble enough to acknowledge that I don’t know the secrets of the universe. I’m no longer chasing faith. I’m chasing truth—and that means accepting uncertainty, accepting that the universe is bigger and stranger than we can even know. Is it possible that the universe acts with intention, with intelligence? Science is learning that it’s not only possible, it’s likely.”
― Sean Chercover, The Devil's Game

“that’s what religion is. A philosophy of coping. It may bring comfort to the dispossessed, but comfort isn’t good for the dispossessed. The dispossessed need to stay pissed off so things can change for the better.”
― Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game

“There are no good guys in this game. There’s only bad guys, and less bad guys.”
― Sean Chercover, The Savior's Game

“how he hated the word “homeland”; it sounded just one step shy of “fatherland”—”
― Sean Chercover, The Devil's Game