Joshua Gayou > Quotes

“We all built up a lot of bad habits when everything was easy. We forgot how to survive when easy stops.”
― Joshua Gayou, Commune: Book One

“Maybe we were eating that city, marching into it like that, only to shit the city out behind us, along with however many of her people she still contained, and we would keep on like that, marching over their land, eating up their land, and shitting it out behind us.”
― Joshua Gayou, Udo the Warlord

“it’s like the man said: ‘the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago and the second best time is right now.”
― Joshua Gayou, Commune: Book One

“Maybe the brief window of reason, order, and prosperity previously enjoyed was only a hiccup in the long march of eons; a mistake that should never have manifested in a universe composed right-wise of chaos.”
― Joshua Gayou, Commune: The Complete Series

“Henry Scott-Holland: Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, And the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no differences into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!”
― Joshua Gayou, Commune: Book Three

“The mere act of being you grows exhausting, finally. Of being responsible for you, and controlling you in a world fully out of control. Of responding to a world that acts against you, regardless of your own plans or intentions. And so you must respond, and find new ways to control yourself because you cannot control the world.”
― Joshua Gayou, Udo the Warlord

“The great argument seemed always reducible to the same fundamental problem: one group of people had either too much or too little of a thing they wanted while an opposing group had too much or too little of that same thing in the other direction. The people in charge proposed to right the wrongs by taking the various things and redistributing them around like a social shell game, all the while pocketing a fat percentage for themselves with every transaction, and the harder everyone fought, the worse things became.”
― Joshua Gayou, Udo the God

“Alone, men are realists. In a mob, men are not sane.”
― Joshua Gayou, Udo the Digger

“We don’t tend to like it when things change; especially so when we know those things will never go back to being how they were.”
― Joshua Gayou, Commune: Book Three

“Goddamned, cock sucking, shit eating, smarmy little taint chewing, bent legged, knuckle dragging, dog fucking, Democrat, ball fondling…” is just a selection of the philosophical musings that spilled from my mouth as I walked up the hill to retrieve the keys to the Dodge as well as my rifle and rig.”
― Joshua Gayou, Commune: Book Two