Craig Robertson > Quotes

“[Juan Speaking] "Sixth, know that there is hemlock near, there always is and it's always easy to drink it freely or have it forced down your throat. Now days, the hemlock is called differently: departing 'voluntarily' after withering harassment, 'termination for cause', character assassinations circulated without remorse, call it what you will, but they can and will and love to administer the hemlock. You must either strive to join the powers that be, and hand out the hemlock, or strive to avoid taking the hemlock they will be thrusting upon you; there is no middle ground, no defense, no recourse.”
― Craig Robertson, The InnerGlow Effect

“{Iola Speaking} "The only time I seem to get you to actually say something is over coffee, so let’s latte.”
― Craig Robertson, Anon Time

“He [Piers] might have been a goofy flake, but he was, in the end, her goofy flake, and she loved him as much as she could.”
― Craig Robertson, Write Now! the Prisoner of Nanowrimo

“moat”
― Craig Robertson, Time Diving

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
  If, Rudyard Kipling, 1895.”
― Craig Robertson, Time Diving

“Time was marked now by only two epochs. The BWWF and AWWF. The Before We Were Fucked and the After We Were Fucked periods.”
― Craig Robertson, The Forever Life

“president”
― Craig Robertson, Time Diving

“I was safely free of Laszlo, at least for the time being.  He would not be able to locate me unless I made a big time stupid move.”
― Craig Robertson, Time Diving

“We humans are such a useless species, so futile and so perfectly bereft of any redeeming worth.  We are doomed to destroy ourselves by our own hand time and again.  We never learn.  Why doesn't every single soul know this and believe this and lament its own nature every waking moment”
― Craig Robertson, Time Diving

“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. Hope is the Thing with Feathers, Emily Dickinson, 1891”
― Craig Robertson, Time Diving

“There were also three men in black flanking the desk. Probably FBI. Hair greased back, skinny ties, the whole nine yards. No expressions either. I was thinking the Three Stooges finally got real jobs.”
― Craig Robertson, The Forever Life

“First, I must create happiness for myself.”
― Craig Robertson, Time Diving

“I'm drenched in the flood, which has yet to come.
I'm tied up in the prison, which has yet to exist.
Not having played the game of chess, I'm already the checkmate.
Not having tasted a single cup of your wine, I'm already drunk.
Not having entered the battlefield, I'm already wounded and slain.
I no longer know the difference between image and reality.
Like the shadow.
I am, and, I am not. I Am And I Am Not Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, c. 1250 A.D.”
― Craig Robertson, Time Diving

“There are a thousand lies between truth and honesty.” “What,”
― Craig Robertson, The Forever Life