David Abrams > Quotes

“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
― David Abrams, Fobbit: A Novel

“These were the idiots shat out by West Point, turds in starched uniforms and glistening high-and-tight haircuts, shiny-foreheaded future corporate executives who used words like envisionment instead of vision.”
― David Abrams, Fobbit: A Novel

“Life for him was a constant balancing act between disrespect and career preservation.”
― David Abrams, Fobbit

“the suit just gave them something to bury him in, something to keep the body parts all in one place.”
― David Abrams, Fobbit: A Novel

“you could hardly call them Fobbits. They were ghosts, gone outside the wire more often than not (and making damn sure everyone saw them depart, slurping loud from travel mugs of coffee, uniforms clinking and whickering, a patchwork of 550 cord and carabiners and duct tape).”
― David Abrams, Fobbit: A Novel

“Fictional tales are better and more enjoyable the nearer they approach the truth or the semblance of the truth”
― David Abrams, Fobbit: A Novel

“This particular officer, Duret joked, had once been “hale and hearty,” but now he was just “pale and farty,” holed up in the palace”
― David Abrams, Fobbit: A Novel

“America sure was a funny place to look at when you got far enough away,”
― David Abrams, Fobbit: A Novel

“He at once loved and loathed his single parent who put the “mother” in “smother.” He knew she did him no favors, raising him the way she did, but he wouldn’t change a thing.”
― David Abrams, Brave Deeds: A Novel