Bracken MacLeod > Quotes

“A bullet has no conscience to consult as it flies from the barrel of a gun. It doesn't feel the wind or the sun or the rain as it speeds toward its target. It penetrates the innocent and the guilty with equal intent and creates victims with the same enthusiasm with which it saves them from the bullets of others.”
― Bracken MacLeod, Mountain Home

“Maybe a little fishtail skid around the turn. Something to remind them that life was too short to be judgmental pricks.”
― Bracken MacLeod, Mountain Home

“You’re depressing me, dude. What is the point if it’s all fucked up and meaningless?” “Living is the point. The guy who wrote the book thought it took more courage to keep on going than it did to just give up. He said something like living in revolt against meaninglessness gives life meaning.”
― Bracken MacLeod, Stranded

“Man’s reach for the sky rooted to the bones of the earth.”
― Bracken MacLeod, 13 Views of the Suicide Woods

“Their voices thrummed inside my skull, blending together in a mishmash of meaningless abstracted phonemes until it sounded like footsteps on the earth covering my coffin.”
― Bracken MacLeod, White Knight and Other Pawns