Michael R. Hicks > Quotes

“The sun's glow had given way to a brilliant twilight that colored the great mountains with violet and orange rivers.”
― Michael R. Hicks

“When you have eliminated the impossible,” he heard Melissa say through the intercom, “whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sherlock Holmes said that.” “I never would have figured you for a fan of Arthur Conan Doyle,” Jack said.  “I didn’t read it,” she said with a trace of exasperation. “It was on TV.”
― Michael R. Hicks, Reaping The Harvest

“if anything, you may think of me as Adam without his Eve, cast out of the Garden with no hope of ever returning.”
― Michael R. Hicks, Confederation

“The Iranians are pasting the place with artillery.” Above, a dozen contrails weaving tight patterns through the sky. One of them flared into a bright orange cloud that rapidly faded into black smoke and flaming chunks of debris. “Christ, the flyboys are at it up there. Naomi, if we have to cross the border, we’re going to be completely fucked. This thing’s not an F-22, and the only countermeasure I’ve got is my middle finger.”
― Michael R. Hicks, Reaping The Harvest

“was an unusual”
― Michael R. Hicks, Season Of The Harvest

“After my ordeal ended, I gave thought many times to seeing Eleanor and my son Jason, even if from a distance. But their lives are their own, now, and I could never return to them with the scarred and stained soul that I bear.”
― Michael R. Hicks, The Journal of Avery Moore

“Fear opens many doors that before were firmly shut.”
― Michael R. Hicks, In Her Name: The Last War

“every day that you let yourself do just that, just the stuff you have to do to get by, even when you’re so tired you can’t see straight, you die just a little bit. Not much, not so much that you notice that day, or even the next, but just a little. Your mind starts eroding, and you start forgetting about anything that you used to think was interesting or important, whether anyone else thought it was or not. Pretty soon, all the useless crap that we do here becomes more and more important to you, as if it really had some meaning.”
― Michael R. Hicks, Empire

“Faith was something to be placed on oneself and on those to whom one was bound by honor, not in deities that had no substance, that did not exist.”
― Michael R. Hicks, From Chaos Born

“Genetically modified organisms. You are what you eat…”
― Michael R. Hicks, Season Of The Harvest

“The power of denial was too powerful to overcome by simply trying to inform people.”
― Michael R. Hicks, Bitter Harvest

“The people cursed the gods, and as the end loomed near, the religion of old was destroyed as the people realized their gods were false, nothing more than wishful imagination. False gods could not save them.”
― Michael R. Hicks, Forged in Flame

“rebellion,”
― Michael R. Hicks, Legend of the Sword

“Colonel Sparks, his rifle’s magazine having run dry, thrusting his bayonet into the neck of an alien warrior who had managed to leap through the window, falling on top of her, driving the bayonet’s tip into the wood floor as the alien thrashed and clawed at him. And the terrible, terrible snarling of the enemy warriors, their fangs gleaming as they howled in some terrible ecstasy while they crashed in wave upon wave against the humans’ defensive position.”
― Michael R. Hicks, First Contact

“Sometimes there is no alternative but to dress like the enemy so you can defeat him.” She,”
― Michael R. Hicks, Final Battle

“Have you ever heard of the law of unintended consequences?” He shook his head. “It basically says that any intervention in a complex system may or may not have the intended result, but will inevitably create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes.”
― Michael R. Hicks, Season Of The Harvest

“In the United States, the government has abrogated its responsibilities to safeguard the food supply of its citizens. The biotech companies do the safety testing of their own products, then pass the positive (big surprise) results to the appropriate government agency (the Food and Drug Administration, in particular), which then approves it for sale and distribution. On top of that, a number of key officials in these agencies over the years have been former executives or employees of the biotech firms.  In short, GMO products in the United States do not receive a critical safety evaluation from an unbiased party before they appear on store shelves. This is compounded by the aforementioned labeling laws that prevent food manufacturers from telling consumers that a product contains GMOs.”
― Michael R. Hicks, Reaping The Harvest

“Ride now, my love,” he told her, “as fast as you can. And do not look back.”
― Michael R. Hicks, From Chaos Born

“Taking a look around them, with the city behind and the dense forest in front that led to the hills protecting the possible landing zone, he told her, “Unless I’m badly mistaken or the enemy really disappoints me, we may be in for the biggest defeat since Custer got his ass handed to him at the Little Big Horn.” “What?” Steph blurted. Sparks’s comment was totally out of place from”
― Michael R. Hicks, First Contact

“A long smear of crimson on the water’s surface drifted by the watching warriors.”
― Michael R. Hicks, From Chaos Born

“When you come in here and pick up one of these,” he gestured at Hamlet, “or even watch one of the crappy holos out in the main room, you’re not just an orphaned kid marooned on a dustbowl planet anymore, with no more rights than any slave might have. It’s a way out of here. You’re a hero, or a villain, or anything else you could imagine, and a lot of things you probably can’t. Every time you turn a page you can go somewhere, even someplace that’s never been. But anywhere you go is somewhere far away from here. And the best part about it, the part that keeps me alive and sane, is that the words in the books leave a lot of blanks that your mind has to fill in. It makes your mind work without you forcing it to, and you get better and better at it without killing yourself like you have to sometimes in the fields.”
― Michael R. Hicks, Empire

“abattoir.”
― Michael R. Hicks, First Contact

“war”
― Michael R. Hicks, Empire