Álex Gilbert > Quotes

“She added it to the list of “don’t go there” along with Manchester and North Korea.”
― Álex Gilbert, In Kazar

“Of course, you have not recovered yet. You have fought through a long storm and you have survived a terrible ordeal. For this, you deserve praise for there is no harder fight than to stand in the face of hopelessness. And now, you face a wave. Waves will come and go, child, for the sea remembers the storm. Sometimes, the wave will be low, just a painful reminder of the storm. Sometimes, the wave will rise until you feel submerged, until you feel like you are drowning. You are not. It is just a wave. It will come and go and when it has passed, you will be yourself again.”
― Álex Gilbert, The League of Lesser Evil

“You will always be luckier and unluckier than someone else. //More privileged and poorer than someone else. //Luck and privilege are not sins. //Squandering them is.”
― Álex Gilbert, The Death Path

“Obey or die.
Shut up or die.
I’m this close. This fucking close.
Just go ahead, limpdick.
Push me over the edge. See what happens.”
He didn’t push her over the edge.”
― Álex Gilbert, The Death Path

“//I could patrol while you masturbate. “I would never do such a thing out in the open like some deviant.” //You fleshy things will put a finger up your nose in public. //Or in your mouth. //Yet doing the same to genitalia and anus causes shock. //I fail to see the logic.”
― Álex Gilbert, The Death Path

“Terry Pratchett had once said that the IQ of a mob was that of its lowest member divided by the number of participants.”
― Álex Gilbert, The Death Path

“one of the lessons her dad had taught her was that you can’t say anything wrong if you shut the fuck up. No need to volunteer information that could land her in hot waters”
― Álex Gilbert, Welcome to Harrak

“//Empathy expressed, returning to the primary objective.”
― Álex Gilbert, The Calamitous Bob

“If only I’d been an engineer,” she bemoaned.  “Ah but then you would have been a terrible politician!”
― Álex Gilbert, Casus Belle

“A naked clown could have twerked half a meter away from her face and the only way she could have guessed would have been that it smelled funny.”
― Álex Gilbert, Welcome to Harrak

“Viv was tempted to say she had worked with Hadals and Yries before, but one of the lessons her dad had taught her was that you can’t say anything wrong if you shut the fuck up. No need to volunteer information that could land her in hot waters since things were going well so far.”
― Álex Gilbert, Welcome to Harrak