Will McIntosh > Quotes

“Carpe Diem, just remember that we're partying on the Titanic.”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse

“The guaranteed cure for heartbreak: find pain that’s much, much worse.”
― Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty

“It's funny. Friendships are Catch twenty-twos when you're single and in your thirties. Friends are your life rafts. You try to help each other meet people, you confide in each other, you spend Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, all those emotional land-mine holidays together. But sooner or later one of you is going to meet someone and be gone into the world of couples.”
― Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty

“Nietzsche said ‘What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger,’” Jim said to me as we slogged along another trash-strewn roadside." “Yeah, right,” I said. “How about radiation?”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse

“In my psychology class, I learned that bettors are more confident about the horses they pick after they place their bets.”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse

“I’m just–” She wanted to say “not in the mood,” but that was not only a cliché but a vast understatement. She was dead.”
― Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty

“It was a reasonable argument. And for the past ten years things had only gotten worse. Blackouts, war, fifty-seven varieties of terrorists, water shortages, plagues. It reminded me of a story about frogs: if you put them in an open pot of water and turn on the burner, they just sit there and boil to death, because they’re not equipped to recognize and respond to gradual changes in water temperature. They could jump out at any time, but there never comes a time when their little brains judge it’s time to jump. So they cook. I”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse

“We sat in silence, staring out into the street, listening to the creak of the porch swing, the crickets, and the occasional gunshot.”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse

“Humans draw a hard line between thinking something and saying it aloud.”
― Will McIntosh, Defenders

“The mind always found its way back to baseline.”
― Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty

“What?" The dread in her tone told Rob she knew what. "How much longer?"
"Thirty seconds."
She laughed with a panicked urgency. "I just tried to nod. I can't feel my body, but I keep reaching for it, you know?"
Rob nodded, feeling guilty he was able to.
"How about this? I'll just tell you when I'm nodding, or shaking my head, or punching you."
"Oh, no," Rob laughed, "are you planning on punching me often?"
"We'll see."
Rob couldn't help glancing at the timer, though he knew it would only make Winter more aware of what was about to happen. Seven seconds.
"I keep expecting this to get easier, taht it will start to feel as if I'm going to sleep. But it doesn't. Maybe it's not possible to get used to dying."
Rob reached out to comfort her, then remembered it was forbidden and drew back. If not for the surveillance, Rob would have reached under the silver cover and taken her hand, cold and stiff as it would have been.”
― Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty

“This is the future,” Lycan said. “Connecting people to each other directly.”
― Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty

“I woke from a dream in which I was walking on cookies. Lots of cookies—enough to carpet the ground. That’s it, not much of a dream, not very profound or insightful. Dreams become less insightful, less draped in deep symbolism, when you’re hungry.”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse

“When you have nothing left to hide, you’re free.”
― Will McIntosh, The Future Will Be BS Free

“given that no punches had been thrown in either direction, I didn’t feel a need to take sides. As far as I was concerned there were no bad guys when it came to breakups. Bad guys had guns, and forced you to eat things.”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse

“Because I don’t really want to fall in love. Nathan is safe because he’s unattainable.”
― Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty

“Maybe part of having integrity is surrounding yourself with people who have integrity, so that yours is never tested.”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse

“Maybe part of having integrity is surrounding yourself with people who have integrity, so that yours is never tested. “All”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse

“Powerful people aren’t smarter or more capable than the rest of us; they’re just more willing to lie, cheat, steal, even kill.”
― Will McIntosh, The Future Will Be BS Free

“Why was it so unlikely that you could meet your soul mate by hitting her with your vehicle? Why was it more likely you’d meet her at your cousin’s wedding?”
― Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty

“Right leg gone? Her right leg? She couldn’t see anything except the man hanging over and a gold-coloured ceiling, high, high above. “This is a hospital?” she asked.
“No, no. A dating centre.”
― Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty

“She had nine hundred thirty-one viewers at the moment. Another sixty-nine, and sponsorships would kick in.”
― Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty

“They had turned brown or blue and rotted. Brown and blue, the real colors of death. Who made black the color of death? Black was the color of night, and the potential of a cool breeze. “Just”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse

“willing to give it a try. “What”
― Will McIntosh, Defenders

“Even through this awful time, people were still inventing things. I just wasn’t seeing it, just like people in third world countries never saw it.”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse

“Can’t we share the world? Why do you have to have it all to yourselves?” We would have done that gladly, but we know your minds. Do you really think your kind would have taken us in as refugees? They won’t even take you in.”
― Will McIntosh, Defenders

“I knew her type. She’d had some bad dating experiences and now she focused more on what she didn’t want than what she did want. Avoidance dating. She was already angry with me for the thoughtless things I would potentially do if we dated. When”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse

“Pain has its own half-life; words don’t change that. There”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse

“The profile’s the key, the absolute key to modern dating. If you can get quality people to look at your profile, it becomes a numbers game. The more views, the more hits. The more hits, the more the odds climb that you’ll find a compatible mate.”
― Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty

“There was a commotion at the front of the gallery. I turned to see a priest standing in the doorway holding an assault rifle in one hand, an unlit cigar in the other.”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse