Robert Pobi > Quotes

“We love the things that destroy us, because in that destruction we truly feel alive.”
― Robert Pobi, Bloodman

“What could you say to someone who felt that belief was a component of truth?”
― Robert Pobi, City of Windows

“in her own headspace”
― Robert Pobi, American Woman

“And you said I don’t make friends." "With you it’s personality, with me it’s good old-fashioned racism.”
― Robert Pobi, City of Windows

“Kehoe rolled his eyes; the only time he tolerated folksiness was when it came from John Prine.”
― Robert Pobi, Do No Harm

“Soon there would be more feet for the freezer. Oh, thank Jesus for the Internet. Thank Jesus and Mary and Joseph and God and William Gibson and Montgomery Clift and his mommy and the spider. Thank”
― Robert Pobi, American Woman

“Let the light from my burning bridges guide my way”
― Robert Pobi, Do No Harm

“He had done this enough times to understand that the heart of the business lay with the nursing staff—without them, the entire medical profession would collapse under the weight of its own hubris.”
― Robert Pobi, Do No Harm

“Lucas hated it when people asked how he was, no doubt a vestigial response from waking up in the hospital after the Event, missing a lot of his factory-installed components. Back then, all everyone had wanted to know was how he was doing. Everyone. All the fucking time. “I’m fine. What’s up?”
― Robert Pobi, Do No Harm

“he had that well-heeled vibe that a lot of the people up here wore on their sleeves, earned the old-fashioned way—through an industrious ancestor.”
― Robert Pobi, Under Pressure

“don’t trust anyone who walks around with a mug of vodka and a gun—it’s not what I would describe as a recipe for success.”
― Robert Pobi, Do No Harm

“Randolph and Mortimer”
― Robert Pobi, Under Pressure

“But language has a finite number of components and contingencies; there are plenty of examples. And that letter was written by a machine. It’s content derived from data and produced by an algorithm. A machine can’t differentiate the meaningful from the meaningless, and it can’t generate any sort of a literary style or voice. It can only perform toward a goal it has been given, even if it is using examples.”
― Robert Pobi, Under Pressure

“the past half day. He topped off his coffee, poured one for Spencer—into an old superhero mug that had held brushes for three decades—then slid it across the counter.”
― Robert Pobi, Bloodman

“A crisis actor? It is the twenty-first century and we still have to deal with flat-earthers and anti-vaxxers and moon landing truthers. This is what you get when guns are more important than books—a nation of sociocultural primitives.”
― Robert Pobi, Under Pressure

“My son’s murder killed our entire family; my wife and I both died with him. Somehow it was worse for her, I don’t know why. Maybe it was that maternal bond women speak of. For ten years I lived with a corpse. So did she, but at least the dead man in her midst got up, went to work, and tried to continue living.”
― Robert Pobi, Under Pressure

“Women speak two languages—one of which is verbal. —unknown”
― Robert Pobi, American Woman

“lot of it traced back to Page’s childhood; when you read his file, it was impossible to miss the Shakespeare intertwined with Dickens—along with a little Groucho Marx to keep it bearable. As much of a mystery as Page was—and there was a lot about him that no one would ever figure out—he was a classic study in Freudian psychology (Kehoe strongly suspected that Freud had stolen his entire gig from Shakespeare anyway, so his theories supported each other).”
― Robert Pobi, Do No Harm

“Graves is a classic example of the Dunning–Kruger effect in action; if he doesn’t know something, he thinks it’s not important. At least he’s diligent in his stupidity.”
― Robert Pobi, City of Windows

“The establishment had five-star Yelp reviews across the board, which was quite the achievement in the age of you-can’t-please-any-of-the-people-most-of-the-time.”
― Robert Pobi, Do No Harm

“It is the twenty-first century and we still have to deal with flat-earthers and anti-vaxxers and moon landing truthers. This is what you get when guns are more important than books—a nation of sociocultural primitives.”
― Robert Pobi, Under Pressure

“Lucas knew that arguing with Graves was pointless. What could you say to someone who felt that belief was a component of truth?”
― Robert Pobi, City of Windows

“Now, with the rise of the merchant class, the buying and selling of things no longer makes education a necessity. People amass wealth without realizing that they need to amass knowledge to better use that wealth—the Peggy Guggenheims of this world are dying. Those stupid people I see on television are the future, and they will fight you every step of the way. They will try to make you like them.”
― Robert Pobi, City of Windows

“Zo werkt het met bloedbanden, Jakey. Voor bloedverwanten doe je dingen die je voor niemand anders doet.”
― Robert Pobi, Bloodman

“social media was responsible in that it was continually etching lines of demarcation between every discernible demographic, cutting the social fabric into smaller and smaller swatches. And things were getting worse as people started seeing the world in terms of us versus them.”
― Robert Pobi, Under Pressure