David Archer > Quotes

“Where other people will see obstacles, even blank walls, you'll soon start to see pathways you can use to get where you want to go. It's awesome.”
― David Archer, Code Name Camelot

“After almost ten years as a Denver cop, Sam was sick of seeing what humanity was really capable of. He”
― David Archer, The Grave Man

“God puts us where He wants us when He wants us. What that means is that we will find ourselves”
― David Archer, A Wolf Among Men

“​It was a delightful drive up to Great Falls. There were more trees than people, which is always a good sign.”
― David Archer, Executive Order

“His words were creating a bewildering maze of grammatically inappropriate junctures. It was the kind of maze where small, white mice died without ever finding the little lever.”
― David Archer, Assets and Liabilities

“them, and Roscoe shook his head. “Ain’t no point in trying to hide,” he said. “Let’s just get to it. Hell, you never know but what you might get lucky. Maybe you be the one to walk out of here instead of me.” “Don’t you ever shut up?” The voice came from inside the bushes, and a moment later they parted as a man stepped out. He was taller than Roscoe by a couple of inches, but where Roscoe was thick and muscular, this man was thin and wiry. “That’s all”
― David Archer, Justice Net

“He once told Peter that it was no good trying to tame a thing completely. You had to let it have a little of its wild side. Otherwise you kill what it is.”
― David Archer, Burden of the Assassin

“Evil is contagious, Mr. Mason, and it feeds on greed and power.”
― David Archer, All The King's Men

“and see what new horrors he'd have to deal with. The past four months he'd been on loan to the DEA, and they'd made some big drug busts, shut down some of the most evil purveyors of sin and death that ever lived, but they were like the mythical hydra—as soon as you cut off one of its heads, three more grew back to take its place. Sam wanted to stop cutting off heads and”
― David Archer, The Grave Man

“told you, man, if you find out who they are, they kill you. I think he wants to meet you so he can look you in the eye before you die!”
― David Archer, The Grave Man

“six-hundred-meter-high Renaissance tower.”
― David Archer, The Man Without A Face

“My guys, my people, we wake up every morning and we go to bed every night facing an existential threat. It’s the story of David and Goliath. It doesn’t matter whether the threat is invincible. We are all going to die anyway. What is important is how you face your death. You have just two options. Do you go down fighting, or do you commit suicide?” She paused, watching Sue’s face. “Some might say the choice is irrelevant if you’re going to die anyway. But you know what makes that choice important?” Sue stared at her but didn’t answer. Gallin said, “Your soul. Your soul makes it important.” She grinned. “Come with me if you want to live.”
― David Archer, Dead Hot

“True freedom is freedom from the illusion of morality, from the belief that there is good and evil. There is only power, Mr. Mason.”
― David Archer, Flashpoint

“cleaning lady! The gunk I got out of your carpet and kitchen counters? Grrr-oss!” Sam grinned. “We'll talk about it when I get there. Bye!” He called”
― David Archer, The Grave Man

“Noah, Noah,” Monique said. “Crime is nothing. Crime is something that will always be a part of society.”
― David Archer, Time To Hunt

“I don’t know, Mr. Mason,” he said at last, “whether evil is like a weed that grows in suitable conditions, or whether it is a condition that occurs in some human beings. Be that as it may, I have no doubt at all that the men who run those cartels are evil, in the deepest, simplest, plainest sense of the word. Evil.”
― David Archer, All The King's Men

“Only one who is self-aware can question her own self-awareness.”
― David Archer, Noah Wolf Series #17-19

“Road Kill Cafe, you kill 'em, we grill 'em!”
― David Archer, The Grave Man

“With so many people, democracy is impossible, and corruption is so easy.”
― David Archer, Odin

“think he understands that you wouldn't do that”
― David Archer, In Sheep's Clothing

“surprising to those of you who happen to be fans of espionage fiction, but the reality is that any form of government-sanctioned assassination has”
― David Archer, Noah Wolf Series #17-19

“We operate on the philosophy that it’s better to have a gun and not need it than to need it and not have it.”
― David Archer, Black Sheep

“antonomasia”
― David Archer, All The King's Men

“Genius is the ability to see past the limitations that most of us are faced with, and accomplish the impossible.”
― David Archer, Code Name Camelot

“I showed her a plastic card that said I was with the Pentagon’s Office of the Director of Intelligence which was true in an abstract sense; like Picasso’s people with both eyes on the same side of their face.”
― David Archer, Dead Man Talking

“There, in the dirty sludge of a winter highway, he learned for the first time that a lot of life is all in the mind.”
― David Archer, Burden of the Assassin

“sat there for a moment. “What happened to Kenzie's father? Is he around?” She made”
― David Archer, The Grave Man

“Vos poured the water into both their cups,”
― David Archer, The Amsterdam File

“dealt”
― David Archer, Dead Man's Jury

“Panic demands you do something, but when there is nothing you can do, you go beyond despair.”
― David Archer, Executive Order