Colin Dodds > Quotes

“it may sound strange, but I think atheists are the most religious people in the world.”
― Colin Dodds, Windfall

“It’s the million-dollar question: How do you get between someone and their self-destruction?”
― Colin Dodds, Another Broken Wizard

“Sometimes a streak of bad luck and bad decisions will persist mercilessly for years at a stretch. After a while, it all kind of bounces off you. It still hurts, but you don’t mind it. And you become so uninvested that you don’t even blink when things fall to pieces.”
― Colin Dodds, The Last Bad Job

“were old homes, now abandoned, windswept and useless. And”
― Colin Dodds, Windfall

“I think atheists are the most religious people in the world. They say they want to do away with God, make a more rational world with science. But that’s only another way of saying they want to build a better God—one based on repeatable tests—an inescapable God named Reality. It’s the same unseemly monotheistic impulse to tighten the net that’s driven the wheel of murder for the last two thousand or so years. Deviate from the Trinity and you’re a heretic and you get burned at the stake. But fail to bow and scrape before Reality and, oh shit, you’re a lunatic.”
― Colin Dodds, Windfall