Nathan Allen > Quotes

“you don’t become obscenely wealthy by being a decent and thoughtful person.”
― Nathan Allen, All Against All

“In the unlikely event that my bank accounts are not depleted or overdrawn, the total value is to be withdrawn as cash and bequeathed to the first homeless person encountered whose Christian name begins with a vowel.”
― Nathan Allen, All Against All

“For as long as he could remember, the Krumbleton police force were known derisively as the Circular Firing Squad, a nickname well-deserved due to their reputation for general incompetence. There were countless examples of them shooting themselves in the foot over the years, whether that be staff misplacing evidence, the mishandling of simple cases, the wrong suspect being freed by mistake, and the one officer who lost two toes during a training exercise when his weapon discharged and he literally shot himself in the foot.”
― Nathan Allen, Horrorshow

“He didn’t know what was happening here. Nothing about this interaction felt normal. A Kafkaesque situation. Although, having never read any Kafka, he wasn’t one hundred percent certain that was the correct use of the term.”
― Nathan Allen, Horrorshow

“She was twenty-three and single, and she needed to get back in the game. The only way to do that was to throw caution to the wind and recalibrate her standards. Stop waiting for Mr. Right to show up on the back of a white horse. She would try her luck instead with Mr. Alt-Right in the back of a white limo.”
― Nathan Allen, Horrorshow

“So the only way they can get off now is by watching strangers kill one other, like schoolboys watching seagulls fighting over a discarded sandwich?”
― Nathan Allen, All Against All

“No one enters politics to serve their community. They do it to feed their own rampant egos. Self-interest remains the number one priority. A politician’s sole objective is to win office, and everything else, including what’s best for the country and its citizens, comes a distant second. Marlowe’s”
― Nathan Allen, The War On Horror: Tales From A Post-Zombie Society

“He tolerated this for as long as he could, and he reminded himself of their respective positions in the social hierarchy – he was a multimillionaire author, enjoying a level of success countless others would sacrifice their firstborn for, while she either lived in near-poverty or with her parents, relying on the fractions of a cent she received per click for income. He had won first division in life’s lottery, while she had to make do with participation ribbons.”
― Nathan Allen, Horrorshow

“P-FIG, the highly influential worldwide gun lobby, had been decimated by a self-inflicted mass shooting.”
― Nathan Allen, All Against All

“Friedrich Nietzsche is credited with coining the phrase, “Whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger”. He later contracted syphilis. This led to migraines and attacks of blindness, then eventually dementia and paralysis. It may not have killed him, but by no means did it make him stronger.”
― Nathan Allen, All Against All

“Sometimes, the truth is a hell of a lot more dangerous than fiction.”
― Nathan Allen, All Against All

“It was a lot of wasted food for a group who liked to complain about the level of rampant consumption in our throwaway consumerist society.”
― Nathan Allen, The War On Horror: Tales From A Post-Zombie Society

“How potent that Yoda acid was, he wondered just.”
― Nathan Allen, Horrorshow

“Despite being raised not to judge a book by its cover, sometimes the cover was so abnormal that it was impossible not to.”
― Nathan Allen, All Against All

“they’d had the air conditioning running for fifteen hours straight. For a bunch of committed environmentalists and global warming crusaders, they didn’t hesitate sucking up megawatts of power if it meant improving their comfort level.”
― Nathan Allen, The War On Horror: Tales From A Post-Zombie Society

“was the opposite of an ugly duckling; instead of being a plain child who had blossomed into an attractive adult whilst remaining a kind and decent person, she was an extroverted, overconfident narcissist who hadn’t yet caught on to the fact that she could no longer use her looks to manipulate people the way she used to.   Miles”
― Nathan Allen, The War On Horror: Tales From A Post-Zombie Society

“Memeing involved simpletons repeating the same joke over and over to compensate for their inability to come up with anything of their own. The type of person who, a generation earlier, would have shouted 'Freebird!' at a concert.”
― Nathan Allen, Horrorshow

“The voice came from a young male, Caucasian, aged 18-30, suburban middle class. Backwards baseball cap, black Breaking Bad Heisenberg t-shirt, neckbeard, BMI of 29. Demographically indistinguishable from the hundreds of thousands just like him in Langdon Pryce’s core readership. There was a seventy-one percent chance that Bring Me The Horizon was his favorite band.”
― Nathan Allen, Horrorshow

“Tread carefully. Sometimes, the truth is a hell of a lot more dangerous than fiction.”
― Nathan Allen, All Against All

“but it was about as effective as protesting the use of third world sweatshops and child labor by going into an Apple store and filling out a complaint form.”
― Nathan Allen, The War On Horror: Tales From A Post-Zombie Society

“At least he died doing what he loved” cliché. That was the emptiest and most meaningless of all platitudes. Stuntmen frequently died doing what they loved. So did heroin addicts.”
― Nathan Allen, The War On Horror: Tales From A Post-Zombie Society

“Solomon Turner was born with more than just a silver spoon in his mouth. He was gifted the entire cutlery set.”
― Nathan Allen, All Against All

“The contempt that critics held for Langdon Pryce was nothing compared with the scorn he reserved for them. In his view, critics were responsible for untold misery for which they should be held to
account. Most of them either didn’t know or didn’t care how destructive their words could be. If snobby art critics had been kinder to a young Adolf Hitler, the entire twentieth century could have been a lot more pleasant for everyone.”
― Nathan Allen, Horrorshow

“Taliyah was heavily into fitness and healthy living. She spent much of her time listening to wellness podcasts and following yoga gurus on social media, although that didn’t stop her from mainlining caffeine and smoking like a film noir femme fatale to help maintain her rail-thin physique.”
― Nathan Allen, Horrorshow

“Miles probably should have figured that out for himself when he learned she was twenty-seven and an arts student – and hippies are not solitary creatures. They congregate in packs, and if you let one into your house you invite them all in. Kind of like termites, and almost as difficult to get rid of.”
― Nathan Allen, The War On Horror: Tales From A Post-Zombie Society

“a pair of hands vibrating like an alcoholic’s on the first day of detox.”
― Nathan Allen, All Against All

“He was almost relieved by the way his looks were fading. The kid in the photo looked like Jailhouse Rock-era Elvis. The creature he saw in the mirror every morning was a few pizzas away from the white jumpsuit and Vegas residency.”
― Nathan Allen, Horrorshow