Corey J. White > Quotes

“You want a gun?” “Not even a little bit.” “Good.”
― Corey J. White, Repo Virtual

“Ring One is where my people live. Well, not my people, but the closest thing I want to find: the freaks, the runaways, the perpetual wanderers, the organized crime, the genehackers, the bodychoppers, the digital-wannabes, the loose, the inebriated, the ones with no common sense, no career and no desire for one, the fed up, fucked up, and flamed out. The whole place is like a dangerous chemical concoction. You never know what might set off a reaction, and the threat of violence hangs in the air thick as the smell.”
― Corey J. White, Killing Gravity

“Doc, some houses are meant to burn.”
― Corey J. White, Void Black Shadow

“Too late, Enda realized that perhaps she shouldn’t have throat-punched the messenger.”
― Corey J. White, Repo Virtual

“The augs turn the products of his sensorium into data and then store it all, building a database for that impossible endgame of full personality upload.”
― Corey J. White, Killing Gravity

“If everything is political then all violence is terrorism”
― Corey J. White, Repo Virtual

“This is stand-up tragedy; this is the free jazz of destruction; this is interpretive death.”
― Corey J. White, Killing Gravity

“I stab a crisp piece of roast potato with my fork. I'm not hungry but I eat it because I know I should be hungry. Just like I lie in the dark hating myself when I know I should sleep.”
― Corey J. White, Static Ruin

“I have to make a future for myself any way I can. But sure, you go and teach philosophy to students who’ll wind up working four jobs just to make ends meet. When all this comes tumbling down, at least they’ll be able to chat about Kierkegaard while they’re eating rats around a bonfire.”
― Corey J. White, Repo Virtual

“You never told me where you trained.” “What?” “You didn’t hesitate to breach the room and charge someone armed with an AK-47. I’m guessing that’s not the sort of training you get at private eye school.” “School?” Enda said. “It was an online course.” “Precisely.”
― Corey J. White, Repo Virtual

“I want to help you, JD, but we can’t do it on our own. It’s me, your wrench, and his philosophy degree against a pack of teenage monsters.”
― Corey J. White, Repo Virtual