M.A. Rothman > Quotes

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning”
― M.A. Rothman, Darwin's Cipher: A Medical Thriller

“meat grinder.”
― M.A. Rothman, Freedom's Last Gasp: A Hard Science Fiction Thriller

“He’d been worried that the triangulation’s accuracy might have been a problem, and it would have been in a city full of dense apartment”
― M.A. Rothman, Canvas of Deception: An Organized Crime Thriller

“what might happen if computers were empowered to handle life-and-death choices: What if the machines figure out they’re less expendable than we are? That”
― M.A. Rothman, Primordial Threat

“Michael shook his head. “It’s not a stupid notion, but you have to realize that temperature is an indirect measure of average kinetic energy, and it is necessarily collisional”
― M.A. Rothman, Multiverse

“Power, being a measure of the amount of work being done at any given time, is expressed in watts. However, energy is the amount of work done over a span of time. That’s measured in watt-hours.”
― M.A. Rothman, Primordial Threat

“Skiff?” “Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.”
― M.A. Rothman, Primordial Threat

“blocks. But out here in the hinterland, with wide open spaces between homes, there was no such problem.”
― M.A. Rothman, Canvas of Deception: An Organized Crime Thriller

“let you know when they get here.”
― M.A. Rothman, Perimeter

“Real of Make Believe?”
― M.A. Rothman, Canvas of Deception: An Organized Crime Thriller

“I know. I tend to grow on you, like a fungus.”
― M.A. Rothman, Freedom's Last Gasp: A Hard Science Fiction Thriller

“When at last Oyama motioned for Levi to stop”
― M.A. Rothman, Perimeter

“Yoder contacted me to tell us to lay off the surveillance—and this guy knows way more than he should. I think we can use this to our advantage. He’s agreed to talk with two of my people”
― M.A. Rothman, Perimeter

“I’m lucky enough to have had discussions with Greg Benford, a theoretical physicist and one of the great authors of what’s often considered “hard” science fiction,”
― M.A. Rothman, Multiverse

“Okay,” Levi said. “I understand why that would upset your husband. But do you really think that would be cause for him to be murdered?” Menachem cleared his throat. “My brother-in-law was a very righteous man. He felt it was his calling to bring the truth to the people. You need to realize that to him, what the paper was doing was a sin. I also heard plenty from him in the last year about this issue. He made it clear that even though the newspaper never lied, by ensuring certain things were never said in print, they molded the public narrative. It was a sin of omission.”
― M.A. Rothman, Never Again

“That was how he became a “fixer.” He took care of situations that nobody thought could be taken care of. It was how he became a big earner for the family. Whether it was getting information he shouldn’t be able to get”
― M.A. Rothman, Perimeter

“Ages ago”
― M.A. Rothman, Perimeter

“? L’un des policiers marcha vers lui d’un lent en”
― M.A. Rothman, Opération Main morte (Levi Yoder t. 1)

“présent. Finalement, traquer un meurtrier revenait peu ou prou à”
― M.A. Rothman, Opération Main morte (Levi Yoder t. 1)

“Lucy nodded in understanding. “I suppose it would be like talking about how a police officer shot a teenager on the streets, and leaving out the fact that the teenager was aiming a gun at him.”
― M.A. Rothman, Never Again

“Being friends in La Cosa Nostra had a special meaning. When someone introduced you to another member of the Mafia, they’d say you were either my friend, which meant you were a connected guy, but they wouldn’t discuss business in front of you, or they’d say you were our friend, which meant you were a made guy, a person of mutual respect, and someone who could be trusted with business. A person who’d taken the oath.”
― M.A. Rothman, The Inside Man

“True epic literature is always rooted in great human migrations,” Marty said. “From The Iliad to the stories of Jacob to the Shahnameh.”
― M.A. Rothman, Time Trials

“But he confided something to me that he wasn’t yet prepared to put into print. In fact, he wasn’t sure if he ever would be. He was almost convinced that the company he was working for was purposefully trying to deceive its readers. To shape the narrative, if you will.” Levi frowned. “I don’t understand. Isn’t that a newspaper’s job? I see outlandish stuff in the papers all the time.” “That’s the editorial sections. My husband worked in what people in the trade like to call hard news. It should involve no opinions, just the facts. But Mendel was convinced that the management at the paper wasn’t interested in telling their millions of readers the truth.”
― M.A. Rothman, Never Again

“We didn’t exactly prove anything yet. We don’t call anything known unless we can reproduce it and study it further from all different angles.”
― M.A. Rothman, Multiverse

“blinked in a amazement”
― M.A. Rothman, Never Again

“That was the difference between a made man and a connected guy. A connected guy might be a big shot among ordinary people who realized that he had mob connections, but made men were kings of whomever and whatever they surveyed. And a connected guy couldn’t even question a made man without risking a serious reprisal.”
― M.A. Rothman, The Inside Man

“Certainly, that’s not what you’re here for.”
― M.A. Rothman, Primordial Threat

“breaks you mind…”
― M.A. Rothman, Canvas of Deception: An Organized Crime Thriller

“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration, and resentment.”
― M.A. Rothman, Multiverse

“High or low gravity,”
― M.A. Rothman, Freedom's Last Gasp: A Hard Science Fiction Thriller