Jeff Somers > Quotes

“I decided to irritate him, on the premise that it couldn't make my situation any worse.”
― Jeff Somers, The Terminal State

“I forced myself to stay put and keep looking-impatient assholes would take the leap, letting adrenaline and desperation guide them, but I was fucking ancient and I knew better. It was bitter, but I fucking knew better about just about everything.”
― Jeff Somers, The Eternal Prison

“I didn't want to kill her; she was just doing her job. But she was standing between me and the rest of my miserable life, so she was going to have to take a bullet.”
― Jeff Somers, The Electric Church

“I forced myself to stay put and keep looking - impatient assholes would make a leap, letting adrenaline and desperation guide them, but I was fucking ancient and I knew better. It was bitter, but I fucking knew better about just about everything.”
― Jeff Somers, The Eternal Prison

“Salvation is not easy. Salvation is complex, the most complex puzzle ever devised. A thousand years, and perhaps we can begin to decipher the first word of the question. A million years, we may begin to work on the answer. Perhaps when the universe has collapsed in on itself, and all the worlds scattered throughout have been eaten by hungry suns, perhaps then we will be on the verge, about to triumph and join the angels. I can only hope we have not been too slow to realize the truth, that we do indeed have enough time.” The”
― Jeff Somers, The Electric Church

“Even a blind hog can find an acorn once in a while.”
― Jeff Somers, The Digital Plague

“You are not a Bad Man. I am a Bad Man.”
― Jeff Somers, The Electric Church

“His partner was fat and shorter, a lazy man’s scum of beard on his face. He stared at me with steady, dead eyes. “Captain”
― Jeff Somers, The Electric Church

“He kicked, he cried out, he punched the air before opening his eyes and glaring wildly about as some kind of dream world dissolved around him like sugar in the rain. He”
― Jeff Somers, The Red Line: An Ustari Cycle Short Story

“The fucking robots had all the jobs; they were self-healing, intelligent, learning machines that never tired, never showed up late or hung over. The”
― Jeff Somers, The Electric Church

“THEY THINK THAT BECAUSE THEY ARE GODS 10100”
― Jeff Somers, The Electric Church

“Keeping panic at bay with lies and cheap tricks,”
― Jeff Somers, The Digital Plague

“A religion that did not exist seven years ago, subsuming the world in ten. Unbelievable! Is it because the idea of salvation through eternity is so seductive? No, Mr. Cates. The Electric Church is growing so quickly because it forcibly recruits new members. They murder their new members, they perform surgery on their new members, and they control their new members postprocess via hardwired circuitry.” Suddenly”
― Jeff Somers, The Electric Church

“Fuck, fuck, fuck,” I moaned. Gatz”
― Jeff Somers, The Electric Church