Robert Walker > Quotes

“and wouldn’t be able to stitch up the wound again, at least not until they got to the truck, which had another large first aid kit in it.”
― Robert Walker, Surviving the EMP: Prepper Apocalyptic Fiction Boxset

“As much as Phil hated this man, he couldn’t bring himself to execute an unarmed man. The battle was won, and pulling the trigger now would be murder, not self-defense.”
― Robert Walker, Surviving the EMP: Prepper Apocalyptic Fiction Boxset

“tuck the pistol”
― Robert Walker, Surviving the EMP: Prepper Apocalyptic Fiction Boxset

“It’s no secret who hates this country.”
― Robert Walker, Surviving the EMP: Prepper Apocalyptic Fiction Boxset

“And that will be their undoing," the grandmother replied, her voice dropping to a more somber register. "When you believe you own the earth rather than belonging to it, you lose the wisdom of limits. You forget that what you do to the land, you ultimately do to yourself.”
― Robert Walker, Before the Ships: A Native American Epic

“He quickly realized that no help would be coming and that the only person who would be able to get him out of this situation was himself.”
― Robert Walker, The Coldest Night

“Survival, he had always thought, was no reason to ditch one’s humanity, compassion, and honor.”
― Robert Walker, The Coldest Night

“for cover,”
― Robert Walker, The Coldest Night

“That abundance made sharing easy, and scarcity made sharing necessary. That the difference between survival and destruction was not just the presence of water or food or shelter, but the presence of agreement — the decision to share rather than fight, to govern rather than take, to build councils rather than walls. We do not take. We receive.”
― Robert Walker, Before the Ships: A Native American Epic

“Don’t worry about it,” Arthur said. “I was just doing what was right, and that’s what I always do. I’ve never compromised on my morals and ethics and never will.”
― Robert Walker, The Coldest Night

“Cover,” Phil answered. “We moved from car to car; they’re the only cover we’ve got here.”
― Robert Walker, Surviving the EMP: Prepper Apocalyptic Fiction Boxset

“now”
― Robert Walker, The Coldest Night

“He did not know that other councils would rise in other places, learning the same lessons the hard way, burying their own children before they discovered that sharing was better than fighting. That the pattern would repeat across continents and centuries — scarcity teaching what abundance never could, death instructing those who survived.”
― Robert Walker, Before the Ships: A Native American Epic

“he chambered another round, then readjusted his aim.”
― Robert Walker, Surviving the EMP: Prepper Apocalyptic Fiction Boxset

“I’m not going to use the remote,”
― Robert Walker, Surviving the EMP: Prepper Apocalyptic Fiction Boxset