Erec Stebbins > Quotes

“The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. —George Orwell”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. —Chief Isapo-Muxika ("Crowfoot")”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“Time is the fire in which we burn. —Delmore Schwartz       Point α A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. —Chinese Proverb”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. —Albert Camus”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“It might not make sense, but there is love, and then there is another kind of love. A kind of love that seems bigger than even the two involved. And yes, maybe it’s madness.”
― Erec Stebbins, Writer

“himself. “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maria, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell; the third day He arose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and life everlasting.”
― Erec Stebbins, Extraordinary Retribution

“Lopez felt a soft touch on his hands. Houston stroked the snow-white tops of his knuckles on the wheel. “Calm down, Francisco. Ease up. We made it.” She touched his arm. “You did good.” Lopez tried to relax his fingers. As soon as he did,”
― Erec Stebbins, Extraordinary Retribution

“height. Can they shoot us from this far? The CIA agents began firing, and it took a moment for Lopez to understand their intent. Several shots were close enough that he heard a bullet whiz, but he and Houston were unscathed. The balloon! It was so obvious. They were small targets, hard to hit at their increasing”
― Erec Stebbins, Extraordinary Retribution

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike rather than those who think differently. —Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Erec Stebbins, Maker

“There is one disease which is widespread, and from which men rarely escape: that every person thinks his mind more clever and more learned than it is. I have found that this disease has attacked many an intelligent person. — Maimonides”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. —Theodore Roosevelt”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. Mark Twain”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“Nothing is ever as it seems or as it might be.”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“Jealousy does not wait for reasons. —Gandhi”
― Erec Stebbins, Writer

“Is it sermon time?”
― Erec Stebbins, Extraordinary Retribution

“from under the cap and melded with the rough layer of stubble on his face. The smoke in the bar created a tangible fog, infiltrating every crevice, staining curtains and nearly obscuring the obligatory “No”
― Erec Stebbins, INTEL 1: Books 1-4

“Disappear,” said Savas.”
― Erec Stebbins, Extraordinary Retribution

“There’s a primer,” continued Lightfoote. “I know it. I just can’t figure it out. There’s a measuring stick in this mess!” Lopez sighed. “So you’ve been saying since dawn. But it’s a quarter to five and there hasn’t been anything more. Don’t you get hangovers?” “Cyborg.” “Right. I’d forgotten.” They’d been staring at the reconstructed image for hours, assembled on the computer from several photos Houston had taken, completing the half obtained from Fawkes’s file. “What do you make of it, Francisco?” Houston had asked after they stitched the images together. “Nothing,” he’d sighed. “Just more crazy.” But from early on Lightfoote had disagreed. As the night had limped by, she continued staring at the news clippings, scrap paper, words and diagrams, equations and images John Nash had taped and pinned together across the giant poster board. “Look. This isn’t coincidence. Numbers!” she gestured to”
― Erec Stebbins, INTEL 1: Books 1-4

“And in that half-asleep state, moments before waking, when inspiration meets the practicality of day, I knew.”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down. —Ray Bradbury”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins. —Arthur C. Clarke”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth." —William Anders”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“And through his eyes, I saw this. I saw the deepest meditation of a lover for whom all time stops as his beloved simply turns her head to the side or takes a step.”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“Every day is filled with impossibility, until you have chosen to see the possible. Once you make the shift to see, life is a less frightening journey.”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“CIA computers and verified the location of the bunker. It was directly below him, the walls hardened and reinforced with steel and concrete, a circular hub of an enclosed living space with its own power system, battery banks, water wells, air filtration systems, sewage disposal, security system, and medical”
― Erec Stebbins, Extraordinary Retribution

“To understand recursion, you must understand recursion, until you do. —Programmer’s joke”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“we have is another example of a weak commander in chief who has staffed his “intelligence” communities with dangerous liberals more in tune with his own politics.”
― Erec Stebbins, Extraordinary Retribution

“modification, storage in a retrieval system or retransmission, in any form or by any”
― Erec Stebbins, INTEL 1: Books 1-4

“fakes,” he said flatly. “Yes, we assumed you would deny them. Deny what you have done. Just as you have denied the abuse we have too long hidden from the world.” Lopez sat upright. “What are you talking about? Those charges are utterly false, and you know it!” The bishop shook his head sadly. “You need help, Lopez. If you can come in here so incensed and deny before me and this Office the truth we are all familiar with, you”
― Erec Stebbins, Extraordinary Retribution

“What were we, exactly? Atoms that on their own have no will, no purpose, nothing but constraints based on “laws” of physics (whatever those really are ultimately). Somehow, under the conditions of New Earth—temperature, radiation impact from the sun and cosmic rays, composition, pressure—these atomic entities can form organized structures that at one point obtained the power to replicate. Then the process of “survival of the stable” took over, and evolution produced increasingly complex molecules, cells, bodies—minds. That love and the ideals of beauty and wonder all come from the arbitrary dance of molecules like carbon chains and water is extremely strange when you really think about it. In fact, it makes no sense at all to me.”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy