Blake Northcott > Quotes

“You can bully people, you can threaten them, but you can't break someone unless they're willing to be broken.”
― Blake Northcott, Vs. Reality

“Eventually reality will catch up with you, Dia. You can run and you can distract yourself, but you can't fight it off forever.”
― Blake Northcott

“Thoughtful reflection has been replaced with mindless games and digital consumerism.”
― Blake Northcott, Final Empire

“But be practical - reality is harsh and has no sympathy.”
― Blake Northcott

“Some wounds are permanent; you know that as well as I do. And the worst ones are invisible.”
― Blake Northcott, Relapse

“Reality sucks.”
― Blake Northcott, Vs. Reality

“probability. If you go surfing off the North Shore of Hawaii”
― Blake Northcott, Arena Mode

“You know what they say about joining a war,” Govinda offers in a strangely avuncular tone, “if you have nothing personal at stake, it’s a wise decision to join the side that’s going to win.”
― Blake Northcott, Vs. Reality

“People can believe whatever they want – Heaven, Hell, angels, gods – if it gives you a reason to get up in the morning or helps you sleep at night, then it’s energy well spent. But if someone wants to wax intellectual about a divine creator who is by all accounts infallible, I always had the same response: the universe’s one and only absolute is math.”
― Blake Northcott, Assault or Attrition

“Some people are the heroes, and some are the sidekicks. There's nothing wrong with that.”
― Blake Northcott, Relapse

“People can believe whatever they want – Heaven, Hell, angels, gods – if it gives you a reason to get up in the morning or helps you sleep at night, then it’s energy well spent.”
― Blake Northcott, Assault or Attrition

“Even if an omniscient deity was sitting on a cloud watching Arena Mode, I doubt he would have intervened. He wasn’t going to divinely bestow any of the competitors with the strength and ability to win the tournament just because they asked – no more than he decided the outcome of the Superbowl based on the quarterback’s faith, or granted a music award to the rapper who wore the most impressive gold cross on their necklace.”
― Blake Northcott, Arena Mode

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” - Marianne Williamson”
― Blake Northcott, Vs. Reality

“Theoretically that would make the Bible one of the first ever superhero adventures adapted into a book ... which would explain its popularity.”
― Blake Northcott, Arena Mode

“sports car, was it so impossible that two-thousand”
― Blake Northcott, Arena Mode