Bobby Adair > Quotes

“Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing.”
― Bobby Adair, Dead Fire

“A person is nothing if not the product of the lies he believes about himself.”
― Bobby Adair, Grind

“Null Spot the Destroyer still had an imagination full of bad ideas and a pocket full of stupid to spend.”
― Bobby Adair, Destroyer / Dead Fire

“Sarcasm is such a handy device to communicate so much while saying so little.”
― Bobby Adair, Bleed

“We probably won’t live long enough to run out of food, or electricity, or anything important.” “Oh, you’ll live,” Murphy said. “I have no doubt.” “Really?” Jerome asked, real curiosity in his voice. “What makes you think I’ll last?” “Because you’re a pussy!”
― Bobby Adair, Infected

“Sure, shit happens we can’t control, but that’s exactly what it is: shit you can’t control. You can’t control what it is, or sometimes what it does to you. But like I’ve told you before, you can control how you feel about it, how you deal with it.”
― Bobby Adair, Torrent

“I'm just going to put this out there: I grew up with an irrational fear of Flying Monkeys. How is a little kid supposed to know that they only exist in Oz?”
― Bobby Adair

“not because they are based on any kind of fact. I’m not that smart, but I’m smart enough to know to ask questions. And sometimes all you have to do is ask questions and things that aren’t true fall apart under examination.”
― Bobby Adair, Ebola K

“reasonable people often have difficulty anticipating irrationality from unreasonable people.”
― Bobby Adair, Bleed

“Man, I’m just trying to get you lighten up a bit.” “Murphy, we’re looking at a thousand rotting corpses. Lighten up?” “Life is what you make it, man.”
― Bobby Adair, Infected

“Ebola, that little bastard of a bug, had popped up earlier in the summer in Sierra Leone in the worst outbreak in history. Was it possible that global warming had changed something important about the ecological balance in Africa and turned it into an optimal, continent-sized petri dish for breeding that virus?”
― Bobby Adair, Ebola K

“He was dead. I was fixated on the horrid bite wound on my left forearm. For a long time I watched, hypnotized, as the blood oozed and dripped.”
― Bobby Adair, Zero Day

“It is an unfortunate historical recurrence that uneducated societies tend to devalue women.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“We had tens of thousands of ballistic missiles we could pop into low-earth orbit in the blink of an eye so we could obliterate each other on some future day when that perfect mix of nationalism, enmity, and stupidity convinced our kleptocrats that a dead planet was preferable to living under the yoke of some other culture’s facade of good governance.”
― Bobby Adair, Freedom's Fire

“I went into the living room and looked down at my mother’s torn body and shook my head. It was surreal. I guess some people in that situation would have crumbled, some would have cried, but I’d emotionally disconnected from life a long time ago. For that, I had to thank the skeletal bitch on the floor, with her greedy rodent soul and her short-tempered ape-mate in the kitchen. If anything, her death was a belated answer to old prayers, with a bit of an unexpected mess.”
― Bobby Adair, Zero Day

“instead of just surviving, we can choose to thrive.”
― Bobby Adair, Infected

“The illusion of choice was better than having no choice at all.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors

“He was in no shape at that moment to pick the mood up off of the floor, but”
― Bobby Adair, Zero Day / Infected / Destroyer

“those of us on the chain gang were going to get worked until near death, and then we’d be eaten. The”
― Bobby Adair, Dead Fire

“The folks in this small town had made their last stand at the Piggly Wiggly.”
― Bobby Adair, Grind

“Skiing and shooting?” Joan laughed. “Are you kidding? In the same event?” Olivia often wondered what it was about most Americans that made them so laughably proud of their ignorance of any sport that wasn’t American-style football.”
― Bobby Adair, Ebola K

“History is full of examples of slaughter and victory.”
― Bobby Adair, Ebola K 2

“I thought you were dead." "So did I. Considering I was up against three soldiers, I did pretty damn well," he mused. She”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors

“Some days I felt invincible, though I had to constantly remind myself that my delusions of invincibility were driven primarily by anger and stupidity. Reluctantly,”
― Bobby Adair, Bleed

“Dammit.” I huffed and tried my best not to throw a toddler tantrum, and thought about punching the steering wheel as”
― Bobby Adair, Bleed

“I knew what was wrong. The virus was debilitating my coordination and I just didn’t want to accept it. I”
― Bobby Adair, City of Stin

“Bringing Ebola to America on purpose. What the fuck kind of craziness was that?”
― Bobby Adair, Ebola K

“It was the sound of somebody punching a giant marshmallow that announced the detonation.”
― Bobby Adair, Dead Fire

“Anyways, the epiphany I just had was this. Maybe guys like me who write with bad grammar and all and sound like what you might think a dipshit should sound like, actually aren’t dipshits. We’re just regular Joes, makin’ the world go ‘round. It’s those fucks who talk and write so smooth and perfect that they make you feel like a dumbass because you don’t. Maybe they’re the dipshits.”
― Bobby Adair, Dusty's Diary: One Frustrated Man's Apocalypse Story

“He wanted to hate her, but it hurt too much.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series