Jason Kasper > Quotes

“Police succeeded by having protocol. Thieves succeeded by having none—at least, none that the outside world could decipher until after the job was done.”
― Jason Kasper, The Spider Heist

“The house was silent, and I passed through its shadows like a ghost.”
― Jason Kasper, Jais

“No, son, you become a thing by being it first. There’s no room for wanting—the people who want a thing want it for their whole lives, always dreaming of another day. The doers in this world don’t want to be, they are. And they are in every moment, in every decision, every day of their lives. Now, what are you?”
― Jason Kasper, Avner

“legal risks to catch a glimpse of it. Except, with the darkness, the glimpse you catch isn’t euphoria or bliss or hallucinogenic inspiration—the other side you see is a terrible, dark, twisted world, and you can’t get out. You didn’t even choose to go in the first place. You did nothing different, but your surroundings started to look a little more distorted each morning, and then one day you woke up and you were there. Drug users come out of their journey knowing what an acid trip or a heroin binge feels like. People with the darkness come out being able to write descriptions of the things they saw and felt, things they”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy

“Amat victoria Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. -Kill them all. For the Lord knows those who are his.”
― Jason Kasper, Terminal Objective

“not; you might be saved and you might not. Some return to the outside world and can speak of what they felt inside the booth, and some never return at all.”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy

“replaceable, and”
― Jason Kasper, Vengeance Calling

“husband, but there were some evolutionary instincts that no amount”
― Jason Kasper, Beast Three Six

“existence were muddled; there was none of the adrenaline of combat, and none of the clarity. Talking heads were always screaming on the news. Everyone was seemingly in a competition to be the most offended or outraged by some political scandal or social issue, and the debates raged amid the billboards and commercials of a trillion-dollar advertising industry hawking designer clothes, fast food, and pharmaceuticals. People”
― Jason Kasper, The Enemies of My Country

“The landscape in every direction appeared to be primarily flat tundra, the sky and sun choked by a smoggy haze of gray clouds. I consoled myself with a single thought. At least I’m not in New Jersey.”
― Jason Kasper, Terminal Objective

“me”
― Jason Kasper, The Enemies of My Country

“Stand by,” I replied to Duchess, reading off the ten-digit grid from my wrist-mounted GPS. That was the sickest joke of this entire event—the village was so obscure that its name wasn’t even listed on our mission planning software. The only location that would mean anything to the CIA was the alphanumeric grid identifier that I rattled off”
― Jason Kasper, Covert Kill

“It’s never too late to become a better person, and the only failure in life is a failure to change for the better, every day and in whatever way one finds possible. Don’t ever let a mistake define you.”
― Jason Kasper, Vengeance Calling

“But the younger generation of warfighters to which Reilly belonged was another breed entirely. With their tortured morality and ever-expanding social consciousness, they seemed to be more anguished about their jobs with each”
― Jason Kasper, The Enemies of My Country

“Jo Ann existed in a self-induced cesspool of rules and consequences that eliminated free thought.”
― Jason Kasper, The Enemies of My Country

“Make your mark with the triumph of your spirit over the absurd and meaningless void we’ve been born into.”
― Jason Kasper, Terminal Objective

“Six”
― Jason Kasper, Narco Assassins

“Rules are just preferences chosen when you have the luxury of a choice.”
― Jason Kasper, The Manhattan Job

“the”
― Jason Kasper, The Enemies of My Country

“alarm. “Where are we?” Asadulla’s reaction from”
― Jason Kasper, Last Target Standing

“I didn’t suffer from depression—we simply coexisted. Together we were the last two patrons of a bar at closing time who decided to go to bed together for lack of options.”
― Jason Kasper, Vengeance Calling

“When the winds were changing, it paid to be viewed as the center of the storm.”
― Jason Kasper, Covert Kill

“know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” -Albert Einstein”
― Jason Kasper, Rogue Frontier

“You’re something worse: a lion. You get hungrier the closer you get to a steak, and every minute you don’t abort this thing reduces the chances that you will, regardless of how the situation develops. Coupled to that is the fact that you feed off risk like a leech off blood, and one of these days, it’s going to burn you.”
― Jason Kasper, The Spider Heist

“couldn’t possibly have begun to imagine had they not been there. Or, they might not come out at all. They might never leave. Even though you never wanted it, the darkness is addictive; it is a drug that chooses you. The darkness is very hard to break and will most likely require an intervention from the outside, although in most cases the “intervention” doesn’t know it’s intervening—it might just be accidentally providing a distraction. The intervention may be a person or an event, and you don’t have the power to summon it. It might come and it might”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy

“Cancer walked over to him and kicked the cot. Ian’s eyes burst open and he sat up, meeting Cancer’s eyes in alarm as he removed his earbuds. “What’s up?” Nodding to his earbuds, Cancer asked, “What are you listening to?” “‘Piano Concerto Number Five in E-Flat Major.’ Why?” “Funny.” Cancer grinned. “I took you for a gangster rap kinda guy.” “Really?” “No.”
― Jason Kasper, The Enemies of My Country

“combatant”
― Jason Kasper, Last Target Standing

“it transitioned into a bouquet of dried fruit and licorice”
― Jason Kasper, Vengeance Calling

“Spider”
― Jason Kasper, Narco Assassins

“It always angers me to hear people talk about suicide being a selfish act. Here is what it’s like: you’re locked in a telephone booth with a huge man who is endlessly dragging his nails across a chalkboard, the shrill sounds choking out everything else and making your blood curl, driving your mind to the breaking point. You can’t plug your ears, you can’t tell him to stop; he is a deaf blind mute and he’s not going to quit unless you make him. Just as you’re cocking your fist back to punch him in the face, family members, well-wishers, and pundits from the street run up the sidewalk and pound on the soundproof glass of the phone booth, screaming, “DON’T HIT HIM!”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy