K.R. Griffiths > Quotes

“the truth was that keeping up with the various ways people around the world managed to kill each other, or worrying about whatever invisible menace was threatening some aspect of her way of life just made her feel sad and helpless. Now,”
― K.R. Griffiths, Panic

“thousand Craig Haycocks had been unleashed on St. Davids. An army of men, women and children reduced to insane savagery.”
― K.R. Griffiths, Panic

“made directly for the tunnel that led to the”
― K.R. Griffiths, Sundown

“When life knocks you down, you hit back, and you hit back hard, you hear me?”
― K.R. Griffiths, Adrift

“Herb had decided, as the roof of the hospital lurched toward him like an uppercut, that you knew you were having a bad day when crashing a helicopter into a building was only the second most frightening thing to happen. Or was it the third?”
― K.R. Griffiths, Sundown

“Centre on deck three was just a large metal box; far less impressive than its name suggested. Lots of pipes, lots of exposed metal. Compared to the rest of the expensively-appointed ship, the control centre looked like a wound; like someone had peeled back the Oceanus’ perfect skin to reveal the steel skeleton underneath. All around the main room, metal veins snaked away, large and small. Vents that disappeared into the walls, delivering the purified, warm air to other parts of the ship.”
― K.R. Griffiths, Adrift

“port,”
― K.R. Griffiths, Adrift

“humans didn’t just kill for food. They killed for fun.”
― K.R. Griffiths, Adrift

“hell”
― K.R. Griffiths, Shock

“A giant gleaming Tesco supermarket had opened a few months previously, and, as is the way with these out-of-town monoliths, it exerted a gravitational pill that could be felt for many miles. Buy one get one free is, after all, hard to resist.”
― K.R. Griffiths, Panic

“she began to understand that life is like a fire: comforting, warming, nurturing, and ready to burn the instant you let your attention drift.”
― K.R. Griffiths, Panic

“metal against her sweating palm feeding her courage, she reached the door and stopped, listening intently. She heard a click, something she couldn't”
― K.R. Griffiths, Panic

“Rachel pursed her lips, and Michael noticed two things: firstly that the poor girl was close to hysteria and doing a good job of keeping a lid on it; and secondly that she had the same steely not-to-be-fucked-with eyes as her mother. Looking at her, at the mental toughness written on her face, he thought he could understand why she had made it through Hell that day.”
― K.R. Griffiths, Panic

“Jesus Dan, would you listen to yourself? Have you lost your mind?”
― K.R. Griffiths, Adrift

“From a distance, even the most violent events in nature can seem innocuous and easily overlooked. Thousands of feet above the Earth, viewed from tiny cabin windows, even the mightiest river – all that tumultuous and chaotic force – becomes just another blue scratch on the land below. The collapse of a star, an explosion a billion miles wide, wreaking havoc on an entire galaxy, becomes just a pin prick of light in the night sky. Had a casual observer been scanning that same night sky on the morning it began the falling object would most likely have been overlooked. From a distance, the tiny object made its way serenely and”
― K.R. Griffiths, Panic

“Trying to survive in the company of a man who didn’t care if he died as long as it happened quickly was more than a little disconcerting.”
― K.R. Griffiths, Adrift

“shook away the memory before it sank in teeth.”
― K.R. Griffiths, Adrift

“an obstacle. "Your wife is dead," Edgar said flatly.”
― K.R. Griffiths, Adrift

“Now we fight back," she said. "We know how to hurt them. Now we are the virus, and we will spread from here." Her eyes glittered with intent. "Let's go make some noise.”
― K.R. Griffiths, Mutation

“Do whatever the fuck you want,”
― K.R. Griffiths, Adrift

“Elaine saw the glowing red eyes in the darkness, and felt something catastrophic enter her mind. A level of fear that she hadn’t thought possible. An endless despair that made her soul shriek.”
― K.R. Griffiths, Adrift

“crippled the town, the primary symptom was chaos. They were pure primitives, moving and striking without thought or strategy. Michael could not believe that now they might be waiting patiently for him, luring him out into a trap. No, they were mindless savages,”
― K.R. Griffiths, Panic

“people that chased him. Eventually, surely, they would be pulled away toward other, more interesting prey, and he could think about exiting the station, and the town, and just how he was going to get to Aberystwyth before the infection reached it. There was no time for”
― K.R. Griffiths, Panic

“hadn't been able to watch as she ripped the flesh from her legs and torso and passed the dripping pieces of herself to the creature, and he found he couldn't look at the smeared, oozing result that remained on the floor either. He kept his gaze on the wall, staring straight through it and doing his best not to see anything.”
― K.R. Griffiths, Adrift

“father that if I get off this ship, I've got some fucking questions for him, understand? Over and fucking out." Edgar slipped”
― K.R. Griffiths, Adrift

“Rachel released her grip on the handle of her suitcase (trolley-style, thank God, given the weight of the thing) and fished around her pockets for her cigarettes and a lighter. Lighting up, she inhaled deeply, and allowed the hit of the nicotine to calm her down. Four hours on crowded trains with no chance to smoke had left her frazzled. For a few moments she savoured the smoke, banishing the freezing cold to the back of her mind. This may very well be her last chance to have a cigarette for two days: Her mother had no idea that Rachel had become addicted to what she called the 'foul weed' during her years at university and, for both their sakes, Rachel intended to keep it that way. As a result, trips home to visit the folks quickly became fraught affairs, as withdrawal made Rachel snappy and edgy. She'd often considered the various ways she might be able to slip away for a crafty smoke, but in the end had never tried.”
― K.R. Griffiths, Panic

“More than one schoolteacher had labelled him ‘passive,’ and one had even written on a report card that if Dan was any more laid back, he’d be horizontal. He had taken that as a compliment. In”
― K.R. Griffiths, Rising

“Blood. Hideous, twisted muscles. Teeth. Elaine's”
― K.R. Griffiths, Adrift

“Now, Vega's brains were splattered over the conference room wall, and Mark was running for his life from a mythological creature. If he hadn't been”
― K.R. Griffiths, Adrift

“shit,”
― K.R. Griffiths, Shock