Tom Abrahams > Quotes

“Tomorrow is never promised to us, Leigh,” he offered. “But that’s no reason to give up on today.”
― Tom Abrahams, Pilgrimage

“of rice and cans of beans, soup, and”
― Tom Abrahams, Home

“The grunt pulled his collar up around his neck. “Butterfinger.” “Yeah.” Queho nodded, a smile spreading across his face. “Butterfinger. Good one. I liked that one. I always got the candy stuck between my teeth. Same with the Heath Bar.” He picked at his teeth with his finger. “Not worth the effort.” The grunt kept pace with Queho. The caravan was traveling more like an amorphous pack. The town’s wide streets accommodated the disorganization as the posse clopped along. Queho was so preoccupied with Dairy Queen, he didn’t notice. “I always got the chocolate chip cookie dough,” Queho said, licking his lips. “Oh, that was good. And remember? They’d hold it upside down?” He held out his hand to pantomime a Dairy Queen clerk holding a cup of ice cream upside down. “That way you knew how thick they made it.” The”
― Tom Abrahams, Home

“Hope and happiness go hand in hand. If you have hope, you can’t help but be joyous. And if you’re happy, it’s because you have hope about your future. You’re good with where you are, and you think tomorrow could be better.”
― Tom Abrahams, Better Late

“Elucidation.”
― Tom Abrahams, The Bar in the Middle of Nowhere

“The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.” —Noam Chomsky”
― Tom Abrahams, Home

“It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.” —William Osler, physician and founding professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital”
― Tom Abrahams, Affliction

“It’s the people. They’re the threat when the world goes to hell. It’s not the infrastructure, the disease, or the other dangers that come along with war or disaster. It’s the people. They’re the thing you have to watch out for. I promise you. That’s what you fear more than anything. The people.”
― Tom Abrahams, Prepper: Book 1

“Born from the fear of contracting the Scourge, isolation became the new normal”
― Tom Abrahams, Adrift

“Lucas was a typical teenager; sick of the familiar and anxious for something new. Like Millie, who at sixteen had been at that point where she simultaneously knew everything and nothing, who’d begged for freedom without real responsibility.”
― Tom Abrahams, Best Laid Plans

“Payton said, “When you are good at something, you will tell everyone. When you are great at something, they’ll tell you.”
― Tom Abrahams, I, Marcus: The Traveler's Journal Complete Collection

“An army officer is standing at the bottom of a hill with a platoon of soldiers. He looks up the hill and grabs one of his men by the shoulder. With a ridiculous amount of seriousness he says, ‘Soldier, there’s a drunken Marine at the top of the hill, talking about our mothers. Go get that Marine and bring him here to me.’ The soldier obeys the order but minutes later comes rolling back down the hill, beaten to a pulp. So the officer sends a fire team up the hill. He shouts, ‘Bring that Marine to me now!’ Three soldiers come rolling down the hill, bloodied and embarrassed. The officer sends the rest of the platoon up the hill to bring down the Marine for a good army whooping. The whole platoon returns humiliated and without the Marine. The officer grabs an injured soldier by the collar of his filthy uniform and demands an explanation. ‘What is your problem, son? Why can’t you bring me that Marine for a good army whooping?’ The soldier, out of breath, says, ‘Sorry, Colonel. It’s a trap. There are two of them.”
― Tom Abrahams, The Traveler #1-3

“As far as the east is from the west,” he whispered to himself, “so far has he removed our transgressions from us.” Battle set his jaw.”
― Tom Abrahams, Home

“the biggest obstacle to building the plane, or completing anything monumental, wasn’t in the details. The obstacle was looking too far ahead. If they worried about what came next, they’d never finish the task at hand.”
― Tom Abrahams, SpaceMan

“one who speaks can’t be listening and therefore can’t be learning.”
― Tom Abrahams, Torrent

“I think it takes someone selfless to be a good mother. Dads can get away with having it all. Moms sacrifice. They either give up a portion of their career, or all of it, or they give up a part of themselves. I mean the changes to a woman’s body alone are reason enough that a man could never handle having a child like that. We are not tough enough.”
― Tom Abrahams, I, Marcus: The Traveler's Journal Complete Collection