Jacqueline Druga > Quotes

“Dying ends suffering for those who pass. Death really only hurts the living.”
― Jacqueline Druga, My Dead World

“first outbreak in the States, the human race could have easily faced extinction. In 1918 the feat of traveling from Kansas to Moscow in less than one week was impossible. Yet, today a man can wake up in Chicago and before his day is over he can be in London. And should that same man, asymptomatic in the quiet incubation stage, harbor a deadly airborne virus while on his transcontinental flight, he just started the next pandemic. Needless to say, put all fear”
― Jacqueline Druga, The Flu

“WALLS OF JERICHO... TUMBLE Either a very short instance or an entire lifetime I knew you. You touched me. Moved me. Without your presence, even for a millisecond, I wouldn’t be who I am. In an abundance or a speck, I have loved you. As you move on, I will never forget you. I am forever impacted. I’ll forever call you my friend. ... goodbye.  ”
― Jacqueline Druga, The Flu

“run”
― Jacqueline Druga, Flight 3430

“You taught me. Count the seconds after the lightning, divide by five and that’s how many miles away the storm is.”
― Jacqueline Druga, Flight 3430

“I didn’t think about anything else but getting clean at that moment. Thinking in the shower wasted water. Besides, nothing that went through my mind would change what happened.”
― Jacqueline Druga, My Dead World

“Listen to what I am going to tell you. There is a point of no return with every pandemic. Meaning it reaches a point when we can’t stop it. There is also a point where things start to go crazy, cities shut down, borders close, and people are quarantined.”
― Jacqueline Druga, My Dead World

“I really hate this Time Travel shit." Alex Sans (Sleepers)”
― Jacqueline Druga

“He kind of hit on me in that stoned state.” I put down the bowl. “Said he and I were gonna be some sort of post apocalyptic hook up buddies.” “He was high.” “What if I told you, not now, but down the road I was thinking about it?” “I would tell you that you are grief stricken and not thinking clearly.” “Okay.” I extended the pint to him. “And if I said I was thinking that way about ... you down the road.” “I would say you are being very wise and thinking of the future.” He smiled.”
― Jacqueline Druga, My Dead World

“Ross had a small ax and nearly a fully clip in his revolver”
― Jacqueline Druga, 10:37

“There is no ownership on grief,”
― Jacqueline Druga, Contagious

“Good people with good hearts don’t flip a page in the coldhearted book of life.”
― Jacqueline Druga, My Dead World 2

“Most people don’t realize that the breast can indicate one’s nationality.”
― Jacqueline Druga, The Flu

“She went out the way she wanted to go out. Fast. No more worrying. Dying ends suffering for those who pass. Death really only hurts the living.”
― Jacqueline Druga, My Dead World

“If the epidemic continues its mathematical rate of acceleration, civilization could easily disappear from the face of the earth.” —The Army Surgeon General, 1918”
― Jacqueline Druga, The Flu

“On average, every year, thirty-five people in the United States die of the plague; close to two thousand worldwide. But those are hardly frightening statistics.”
― Jacqueline Druga, The Flu

“Ain’t that the goddamn truth with this virus? Death hurts the living.”
― Jacqueline Druga, My Dead World

“What would the new and less populated world hold? Starvation. Hardship. Danger.”
― Jacqueline Druga, Contagious