Walt Cody > Quotes

“True," Brymmer said, and then found himself wrestling with the old Shall I Argue With The Boss Now problem, which perfectly defined a lose-lose situation. If you argued and were wrong, you would never have a future. If you argued and were right, you would never be forgiven.”
― Walt Cody, Manhattan Roulette

“The one thing that Ross couldn't ever understand was how people couldn't ever understand about life. They imbued the mere fact of three-dimensional existence with delusions of permanence, Your couch doesn't simply disappear overnight so how could your uncle? It didn't compute. That a life was a lightbulb that could simply go pop was a concept not easily encompassed by the mind,”
― Walt Cody, Manhattan Roulette

“Lying there now he was all-in-all content. On the other hand-- and Brymmer had a headful of Other Hands (always reaching into the cookie jar and stealing all the Mallomars)--on that other hand, he was perfectly aware that contentment always existed in direct inverse proportion to his lack of expectation. Expecting nothing, Brymmer was content. It was only on the rare, blighted occasions when hope sprung, infernal, that Brymmer knew despair.”
― Walt Cody, Manhattan Roulette