M.A. Rothman > Quotes

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

“Fortunately, Marty was able to give me all the stories they’d reported on. And they all had one thing in common: an interest in Israel, especially the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Even the lobbyist was focused on influencing congressmen and senators against the BDS movement.” “Damn it to hell, I hate politics.” Levi frowned. “What’s the BDS movement?” “I had to look it up. It’s an anti-Israel movement that’s supported by a fringe group in Congress and is gaining some traction in the press. It’s about boycotting, divesting, and sanctioning Israel. Evidently, these people think Israel is the boogieman and Jews are⁠—” “At the root of all things that have ever been wrong in the world,” Levi said sourly. Denny nodded. “What a bunch of crap. People have been saying that about minorities since the dawn of time.”
― M.A. Rothman, Never Again

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

“His area of research had to do with superluminal particles, otherwise known as tachyons—a niche field that occupied one of the darkest recesses of special relativity. And there was good reason for that: no one had ever detected a tachyon. They were the stuff of science fiction. Tachyons were particles that could go faster than the speed of light. And if there was one thing that everyone understood—or misunderstood—about Einstein’s groundbreaking theory, it was that nothing could go faster than the speed of light. This wasn’t exactly true. To be more accurate, Einstein said that nothing that initially moved below the speed of light could be accelerated to move beyond the speed of light. And thus the question arose: could tachyons exist?”
― M.A. Rothman, Multiverse

“Brice snorted. “Of course it’s illegal. But it still happens. These congresscritters are all the same: rules for thee and not for me.”
― M.A. Rothman, The Swamp

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Vicente continued. “Honestly, I don’t know how you could even fuck this one up. Seven innocent Palestinian kids were murdered by the Israeli army… and we actually sided with the fucking Israelis? Are you shitting me?” One of the women in the room raised her hand. “Sir?” “What is it, Cheryl?” Vicente snapped. “Mr. Vicente, the Israeli government released video footage showing that group of kids attacking two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint. The soldiers were defending themselves, and there was also corroborating video footage from⁠—” “We don’t portray Israel as the victim, ever!” Vicente’s voice echoed in the room, his face red with anger. “And we’re certainly not going to say that above the fold—even if those kids were a horde of screaming banshees led by the ghost of Yasser Arafat. Our readers don’t want to hear that narrative, and you know it! What’s wrong with you people?”
― M.A. Rothman, Never Again

“The papers nowadays are nothing more than glorified trade rags more interested in clicks and getting paid than they are focused on real journalism, much less national security.”
― M.A. Rothman, The Swamp

“When at last Oyama motioned for Levi to stop”
― 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)

“Levi stared daggers at the kid. “I’m the guy who is going to introduce you to your dead relatives if you ever talk to me or Mindy again.”
― M.A. Rothman, Never Again

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

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

“Dominic knew better. People were sheep who only read the headline. Maybe the first few paragraphs. That was it. Hardly anyone read more than that, because they were lazy. They depended on people like him to deliver the truth in bite-sized pieces. He looked around the room at all the editors listening attentively to the top guy spewing his propaganda, and he began to wonder if it was it even possible to deliver the truth anymore.”
― M.A. Rothman, Never Again

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“If the [Ukrainian] prosecutor isn’t fired, you’re not getting the money.” —Joe Biden 2018”
― M.A. Rothman, The Swamp

“switch no else could reach.”
― M.A. Rothman, Canvas of Deception: An Organized Crime Thriller

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

“Unfortunately, the laws in New Jersey are made to support the criminals. As a seventeen-year-old you aren’t allowed much of anything for self-defense. “You aren’t even allowed to carry pepper spray. That’s why the indecent people have it so easy. Good people who mostly comply with the laws are practically defenseless in that state. Especially younger ones, such as yourself. Nonetheless, I have something for you, my little angel.”
― M.A. Rothman, The Swamp

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

“The swamp, eh?” Levi had heard the term used in the media before. “So there is such a thing.” “Oh, without a doubt.” Mason sniffed with disdain. “Everyone knows about the people who get elected. They’re the ones who get in front of microphones or TV cameras all the time and spout nonsense. But they’re not the real power in DC, it’s the so-called workers who facilitate things that are the real power. They’re the ones who connect the dots and make things happen in the capitol. And these are the people you’ll never hear about in the papers or on any news broadcast. Unfortunately, these people exist in almost all governments.”
― M.A. Rothman, The Swamp