Christopher Hopper > Quotes

“Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.

Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange.

Some, downright weird.

But then again, you’d have to be.

To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in front of a computer screen staring at lines of information is pretty tedious. More like a computer programmer. And no matter how cool the Matrix made looking at code seem, computer programmers are even weirder than authors.”
― Christopher Hopper

“He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves.”
― Wayne Thomas Batson, Christopher Hopper

“War is romantic only to those who have never lived it.”
― Christopher Hopper, Rise of the Dibor

“You might feel some… pressure.”
― Christopher Hopper, Decayed Legacy

“Yeah, that plays into it, of course. But winning a fistfight, or any fight, has a lot more to do with strategy than most people assume. It’s a mind game, a true battle of wits, to quote the Princess Bride, where we find out “who is right, and who is dead.” God, I’m a sucker for that movie.”
― Christopher Hopper, Ruins of the Earth

“Oh man,” Z-Lo says. “I got a baaad”
― Christopher Hopper, Decayed Legacy

“The second issue is that I don’t think any of us wants to visit the Plushy Palace today, so being blown or sucked into the portal is a no-go. In the end, Bumper chooses anchor positions fifteen yards from the portal wall. “If we get down to a hundred feet and we’re still too far away,” he yells above the energy field’s sound. “Then we can always swing in.” I nod in appreciation of his conservative approach. Already the two climbing ropes are curving in toward the ring. But their ends are playing in the water, which means that’s where we’ll be falling if this all goes south. Better to die on Earth than on another planet, I always say. Sure, ya do, Pat.”
― Christopher Hopper, Ruins of the Earth

“That’s why deployments are both the worst and the best times of your life. Weird as hell, I know. But talk to a vet, and they’ll tell you it’s true.”
― Christopher Hopper, Decayed Legacy

“Which just makes a guy like me want to stop him even more. That was an oversight on his part,”
― Christopher Hopper, Decayed Legacy

“Damn, that was close,”
― Christopher Hopper, Decayed Legacy

“his mother was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberries,”
― Christopher Hopper, Gods and Men

“We’re good at our jobs, sure. But doing what we do isn’t just about being proficient. It’s about being present”
― Christopher Hopper, Phantom Deadfall

“Many hands make light work.”
― Christopher Hopper, Phantom Deadfall

“All at once, my bitterness... is dying. Dwindling. The flame of anger that's burned since the night I first found out about her unfaithfulness... is starving. And here in the chasm that is my chest, I see my fingers creeping toward a flame, a fire that I've fueled for far too long. I feel the heat, threatening to blister my skin. To sear me. But I can't help but move my hand toward the light as I feel Mom's hot tears on my neck.
And that's when I decide to snuff it out. Welcome the tendril of smoke coiling up from the wick as the funeral pyre of my hate.”
― Christopher Hopper, The Sky Riders

“Can it be used as an explosive?” Said every SEAL ever.”
― Christopher Hopper, Valley of the Dead

“Small metal club for killing squirrels?” Vlad offers.”
― Christopher Hopper, Ruins of the Earth

“Project Iceworm, the Edgewater Arsenal Experiments, and Project Star Gate, to name a few.”
― Christopher Hopper, Ruins of the Earth

“Marines don’t die, Chuckles. We just go to hell and regroup.”
― Christopher Hopper, Gods and Men

“Still boggles my mind that our species survived for thousands of years without Google, but we can’t go more than a few minutes without looking at a notification. We’d rather die in a car accident than miss a text message.”
― Christopher Hopper, Gods and Men

“Well, almost. The digit is apparently too thick to enter without also depressing the trigger, so it accidentally fires the weapon into the oncoming enemy squad. But is it really an accident if it puts down tangos? I don’t think so. In fact, I think this proves that premature discharge is just a part of life and clearly has its place.”
― Christopher Hopper, Gods and Men

“Sugar’s”
― Christopher Hopper, Valley of the Dead

“Eh, screw it. I’m old.”
― Christopher Hopper, Valley of the Dead

“On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country, to obey the Scout Law, to help other people at all times, to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight, except in instances where my morals are corrupted by unusually attractive medical bots willing me toward the Florence Nightingale effect, after which time I shall be rendered utterly inept.”
― Christopher Hopper, Fire and Fury

“I like this one. Mildly sadistic, a dry sense of humor, and a lover of firearms. My kinda guy.”
― Christopher Hopper, Gods and Men

“If everything goes right, you get none of the glory, and if anything goes wrong, you get all of the blame.”
― Christopher Hopper, Ruins of the Earth

“I’m sorry, but sword or not, there’s only so much a space ninja can handle before it gets shot to shit.”
― Christopher Hopper, Decayed Legacy

“if you’re ever gonna pull a knife on somebody, make sure they’re not a damn Marine before you do.”
― Christopher Hopper, Ruins of the Earth

“A rather infamous beer can.” “A what now?” “Goes by Skippy the Magnificent. Ever heard of him?”
― Christopher Hopper, Fire and Fury

“With an in-atmosphere top speed of 932 miles per hour, Chuck estimates that we’ll reach the Ellsworth Highlands Research Site in approximately ten hours. That’s impressive, to say the least, as not once has this old body ever broken the sound barrier unless you count what happens a few hours after Taco Tuesdays.”
― Christopher Hopper, Ruins of the Earth

“place Veronica over my right shoulder, crouch against the handlebars to brace myself, and fire blindly. I can’t even look back to see if my shot has done anything, but then, I don’t have to. “You aim like you’ve had too mucho tequila, handsome,” Veronica says. “But I got tu seis.” “Thanks.”
― Christopher Hopper, Ruins of the Earth