James N. Cook > Quotes

“Depression is an emotion for which I have not the time, nor the inclination, to expend my mental resources,” I say flatly.”
― James N. Cook, No Easy Hope

“Even so long after the Outbreak, I still had to fight the urge to reach for a light switch. Old habits die hard.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“A panicked man makes mistakes, his father had said. Mistakes get you killed.”
― James N. Cook, The Darkest Place

“Most people stopped at the refugee camps in Topeka and Wichita,” he”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“the best people in the world are the ones who appreciate a good companionable silence.”
― James N. Cook, The Darkest Place

“I began to see signs of the large predator following me again.”
― James N. Cook, Warrior Within

“It was as if the memories of the life I had once lived happened to someone else, a strange sort of psychological disconnect.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“move toward my next destination, and try not to get myself killed. Lather, rinse, repeat. It”
― James N. Cook, Warrior Within

“he was a fanatic. A convert. A zealot. There is no arguing with people like that, no reasoning with them. They’re going to believe whatever they want to believe, and nothing you say is going to make a damned bit of difference. I”
― James N. Cook, Warrior Within

“GARRETT DRAGONFLY TWO GRAVES”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“having a home is worth working for, worth fighting for, and if necessary, worth dying for.”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“Like most of the colossal fuck-ups I’ve made in my life, it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. My”
― James N. Cook, Warrior Within

“Human beings. The dust of stars given life.”
― James N. Cook, The Darkest Place

“The infected have an uncanny ability to track people by triangulating sound.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“There’s a big push right now to clear the infected out of Kansas. Central”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“The Legion troops began cheering and chanting. “Fight, fight, fight, fight …” I thought, This isn’t an army. It’s fucking junior high.”
― James N. Cook, Warrior Within

“how excited people get in the wake of physical violence, and sometimes that excitement can result in additional altercations. I”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“In my experience, the wealthier the clientele, the worse they tended to treat the hired help. I”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“figured I would hear the general out, and if anything he told me didn’t jive with what Allison heard,”
― James N. Cook, Savages

“for the first time in his life wished he'd gone into mathematics or physics or wizardry.”
― James N. Cook, The Passenger

“You won’t win by counting all the ways you can lose. You’ve”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“Think too much and you start to panic. Better to keep moving.”
― James N. Cook, Savages

“Remembered pain. It exists only in the mind, but it exists nonetheless.”
― James N. Cook, Savages

“The justifications and sad logic in my head were defense mechanisms, used to ignore the brightness of the truth: she was suffering, dying, and I watched it happen like some macabre reality show.”
― James N. Cook, The Passenger

“It is always farther than it looks.”
― James N. Cook, Savages

“no plan ever survives contact with the enemy.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“learned that yet? How”
― James N. Cook, Warrior Within

“The squad had lost people before, but it did not get any easier with repetition. Fuller”
― James N. Cook, Savages

“Victory and glory are all well and good until the blood on your hands belongs to you or someone that you care about. When that happens, you realize just how dangerous of a game you’re playing when you take up arms against a determined enemy.”
― James N. Cook, Warrior Within

“kidnapping people, raping them, and selling them into a life of brutalization, sexual exploitation, and hopelessness, is hands down the worst sin a human being can commit. So”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter