Steven Konkoly > Quotes

“We needed that Border Patrol stop like a hole in the head. Won’t take much digging to figure out who took a close look at their bunker,” said Decker. “This is going to come back at us pretty fast.”
― Steven Konkoly, The Raid

“Only accessible to the world by a single winding road from Los Mochis”
― Steven Konkoly, The Raid

“or slip away. If he”
― Steven Konkoly, The Raid

“Rock, Paper, Scissors?” said Decker. “To see who gets to stretch their legs first?” Pierce looked at him and laughed. “I didn’t lose my memory from today’s trauma. I always knew you were cheating.” “It’s not cheating if I’m better at it,” said Decker.”
― Steven Konkoly, The Raid

“The two senior officers couldn’t have been a better match”
― Steven Konkoly, The Raid

“You know the saying ‘there’s no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole?’ Well, there’s no such thing as a vegetarian in an apocalypse,”
― Steven Konkoly, The Perseid Collapse

“Alex waited for Kate to gather the handheld electronics from a cabinet above the navigation table and move to the small couch across from Emily’s bed. Their daughter had begun to stir, but still remained asleep. He really hoped she would stay asleep until they figured out what was going on. They needed a little more time to think before adding a panicky teenager to the mix.”
― Steven Konkoly, The Perseid Collapse

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms–to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ~Viktor Frankl”
― Steven Konkoly, Practical Prepping: No Apocalypse Required series: An Everyday Approach to Disaster Preparedness

“Others might call you a sociopath, however, I like the term unhampered pragmatist.”
― Steven Konkoly, Alpha

“Occam's Razor" was a principle designed to urge one to select the hypothesis or theory that made the fewest assumptions. Though on the surface it favored parsimony and economy, the principle didn't assert that the simplest available theory should be applied. The "razor" wasn't an arbiter between theories. In scientific circles it served as a guide.”
― Steven Konkoly, Apex

“Current politicians barely bothered to read the bills they signed or voted into law. Senators and congressmen utilized entourages of poorly paid staffers or volunteers to sift through the nonsense that none of them seemed qualified to examine on their own.”
― Steven Konkoly, Apex

“Maybe he was just angry at having the rug ripped out from under him after spending so much time believing that he was ready for anything. Who was he kidding? Ninety-nine percent of the population had it far worse than the Fletchers, even now. Alex had to remember that. He hadn’t failed on any level. If anything, he’d succeeded in the face of insurmountable odds, with a little help along the way. A lot of help, but that was how it worked. No man was an island. No family was an island. However that saying went. Words to live and die by.”
― Steven Konkoly, Dispatches

“Point of Crisis” A fixed point in the “Malthusian Catastrophe,” where population levels exceed the food production and distribution capacity of a system—resulting in a crisis that can only be regulated by famine, war or disease. – From Thomas Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population (1798).”
― Steven Konkoly, Point of Crisis

“greed often bypassed a person’s innate sense of self-preservation—and nobody was entirely immune to temptation.”
― Steven Konkoly, Coming Dawn

“Take your time, but hurry the fuck up,”
― Steven Konkoly, Coming Dawn

“again. But I firmly believe you’ve been betrayed, and I’m willing to risk our friendship to warn you.” Steele took a deep breath and exhaled, forcing herself to think about the lunacy he’d just shared with her, rather than simply ending the call. Based on her numerous interactions with Reeves, she believed that he wouldn’t do something like this to her unless he felt sure he had enough evidence to support his allegations. She’d give him a chance to explain himself. “Joe. You have five minutes.” Forty minutes later, she ended the call—her hands shaking. Senator Steele felt her world collapsing again. She didn’t want to believe anything Reeves had told her, but deep down, she knew it was true. Despite the rage building inside, she had no intention of accepting his allegations without concrete proof, which he admittedly did not possess. She’d sift through the documents he’d emailed to her government account and decide how far she was willing to go along with Reeves’s plan to learn the truth. Steele wiped the tears from her face and dialed Julie Ragan, her chief of staff. “I was just about to call you,” said Julie. “The car is ready.”
― Steven Konkoly, The Rescue

“handicapped”
― Steven Konkoly, Alpha

“Charger”
― Steven Konkoly, ALPHA

“he said into the headset, running past Samantha, who”
― Steven Konkoly, Event Horizon

“they could create their own isolated community to support and raise the next generation of sleepers.”
― Steven Konkoly, Deep Sleep

“Please excuse me if I don’t shake hands,” said Chang.”
― Steven Konkoly, Hot Zone

“Interstate 75,”
― Steven Konkoly, Kill Box

“base,”
― Steven Konkoly, Rogue State

“the”
― Steven Konkoly, ALPHA

“a fallen angel thrown out of paradise for refusing to sacrifice his ideals in a world that rewarded compromise.”
― Steven Konkoly, Apex

“You look worried,” she said. “I saw it on your face last night, too. This is a new look for you, Joseph, so don’t try to deny it or say you’re exhausted. What’s really going on with Decker?” “I’m not sure I know anymore,” said Reeves. “And that’s what has me worried. I can’t shake something Decker said yesterday.” “Is it a game changer?” “It could be—if it’s true,” he said. “Does it cost you anything to check into what he said?” “No.” “There’s your answer,” she said. He leaned forward in the chair and kissed her hand, feeling a little better about the day ahead of him.”
― Steven Konkoly, The Rescue

“There was nothing worse or more time-consuming than enduring the prattle of people who thought they mattered.”
― Steven Konkoly, Fractured State

“When you bring toys, you tend to play with them—and the army had a lot of toys.”
― Steven Konkoly, Alex Fletcher Boxset

“Sam, could you slide that trauma pad under his head, I mean ass? I get the two confused,”
― Steven Konkoly, Event Horizon

“desperate scream from deeper inside the apartment.”
― Steven Konkoly, Redux