Tam Linsey > Quotes

“There are always costs when man alters nature, his own or the world around him.”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“She’d been avoiding the radio because it depressed her: people hurting one another, basic government services going down, foreign trade cut off as the amarantox spread. All”
― Tam Linsey, Amarantox

“Blattvolk, Cannibals, Fosselites — I met both good and evil, deception and truth in all races. The”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“if these were native Haldanians, you’d help them.” “Of course. Their parents could foot the bill. The Conversion Department is very strict with funding.”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“There are always costs when man alters nature — his own or the world around him. Rosalee”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“Botanicaust — an event 400 years ago during which invasive weeds wiped out most plant life on Earth, including the major food crops.”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“The Mothers bade us Keep the Peace. —The Histories”
― Tam Linsey, Amarantox

“by taking away self-sufficiency; farmers weren’t allowed to save their own seeds, or even worse, the modified seed would be sterile. Corporations wanted to put a patent on life.”
― Tam Linsey, Amarantox

“People who are still possibly living a primitive life as farmers. The Conversion Department may be interested in making contact with them. I’m”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“in the dry years, when cannibals broke past the electric fences and carried off those who didn’t make it to the underground”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“Were there corporate fat cats still out there, sitting in well-stocked bunkers and creating a revisionist history of what had happened? How”
― Tam Linsey, Amarantox

“What was he supposed to do with five abominations? What would he tell his people?”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“With steady power unreliable of late, everyone had gathered in the living room to enjoy the television while they could.”
― Tam Linsey, Amarantox

“The Hunger will chase you, so you’d better run fast. —Mother’s Proverb”
― Tam Linsey, Amarantox

“Well, we do need more test subjects. The ones you send keep dying.”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“When there’s nothing else, eat hope. —Mother’s Proverb”
― Tam Linsey, Amarantox

“He had two carcasses to transport over the Crossing. The Hunger was coming. But not today.”
― Tam Linsey, Taking the Knife

“the sun remained hidden as if ashamed of the havoc below. “That’s”
― Tam Linsey, Amarantox

“Levi was not so pious. Surely, it never occurred to Abraham that God was toying with him.”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“they were about eleven or twelve years old, but they looked like little old women. Even their dark hair had lost all shine, cropped close to their gaunt skulls.”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“Never in his life had he imagined he would be aiding the escape of abominations. But”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“At least on this journey they were not fleeing Fosselite night vision or Protectorate Burn Operatives. Ijon”
― Tam Linsey, Doomseeds

“Nothing but a yellow trail curling up the mountain like a cryptic word of warning.”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“And then the Tox came, and the food stopped. —The Histories”
― Tam Linsey, Amarantox

“When you give up hope, then you’re surely doomed.” “We can’t eat hope.”
― Tam Linsey, Amarantox

“Old Order — a remnant Amish society who survived the Botanicaust by”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“Ice particles made everyone’s exposed cheeks ruddy with false health. The hungry hollows below their cheekbones told the true story.”
― Tam Linsey, Botanicaust

“slavers ended up slaves themselves in the end.”
― Tam Linsey, Doomseeds

“Government trucks toured the streets every morning, collecting blue-lipped corpses—usually children or the elderly—left on street corners for pickup.”
― Tam Linsey, Amarantox

“There was so much she wanted to tell him. Yet she didn’t want to talk about any of it. Now”
― Tam Linsey, Amarantox