A.C. Fuller > Quotes

“People suffer in silence all the time. Even successful people at the top of their professions. The world wears on people. Rich and poor. Famous, infamous, and unknown. The world is a damn meat grinder.”
― A.C. Fuller, The Last Journalist

“a child who loses his parents is an orphan, a man who loses his wife is a widower, a woman who loses her husband is a widow. But there is no name for a parent who loses a child, for there are no words to describe this pain.”
― A.C. Fuller, The Inverted Pyramid

“Why a pay phone?” Camila asked. “He didn’t have a cell phone. Still carried change in his pocket like in the old days. Plus, I think he don’t want his staff to hear him”
― A.C. Fuller, The Anonymous Source

“Report. What. Happened. I understand there's room for opinion and analysis, but most American journalists have come down with the disease of future punditry. It's not enough to say what happened, they have to say what will happen next. And, in case you haven't noticed, they're wrong more than half the time. In my view, reporters have limited time and energy, and now we burn much of it on half-assed speculation when we should be using all of it talking to sources, doing research, knocking on doors.”
― A.C. Fuller, The Last Journalist

“Alex read the e-mail twice, then flopped down on his bed. He stared at a black speck on the ceiling and tried to picture his parents in their vegetable garden back on Bainbridge Island. All he saw was their blue Camry swerving off the road, crashing into a cedar tree. For the first few years after their deaths, seeing his name in print had given him a feeling of existing when nothing else did, but he no longer got that rush. His job had become routine, easy. In his boredom, unpleasant images were arising. He hadn’t actually been there when his parents died, but he was seeing the crash almost every day now”
― A.C. Fuller, The Anonymous Source

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― A.C. Fuller, The Anonymous Source

“War is the best time to conduct otherwise controversial business. The liberals will be too busy protesting our response to the attack and the conservatives will be too busy selling it.”
― A.C. Fuller, The Alex Vane Media Thrillers #1-3

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― A.C. Fuller, New York

“He who thus understands the nature of the body, and all human relationships based upon it, will derive strength to bear the loss of our dear ones. In the Divine plan, one day each union must end with separation.”
― A.C. Fuller, The Inverted Pyramid

“krumping like a madman. Arm jabs, stomps, and chest”
― A.C. Fuller, Open Primary