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“Death comes in waves,” his father used to preach before each of his wilderness exercises. “Both physically and emotionally. Nobody is immune.”
― Jay J. Falconer, Homeland: Uprising

“Because we’ve all been brainwashed by the news media and the Deep State who control them. We’re supposed to believe everything they tell us, like good little slaves who are too stupid to think for themselves.”
― Jay J. Falconer, Homeland: Uprising

“One evening an old Cherokee Indian told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two ‘wolves’ inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.” The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?” The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”
― David Archer, Code Name Camelot

“Sometimes you have to look at the greater good, no matter what the consequences to yourself might be.”
― David Archer, Code Name Camelot

“Class”
― T.L. Gray, Shattered Rose

“Triaminotrinitrobenzene”
― David Archer, In Sheep's Clothing

“I have it on very good authority that I have a lovely pee-pee, so lay off.”
― Eoin Colfer, Plugged

“Laughter is the best medicine but if you laugh for no reason, you need medicine.”
― Saeed Sikiru, Funny Quotes: 560 Humorous Sayings that Will Keep You Laughing Even After Reading Them

“Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.”
― Saeed Sikiru, Funny Quotes: 560 Humorous Sayings that Will Keep You Laughing Even After Reading Them

“Noah, Noah,” Monique said. “Crime is nothing. Crime is something that will always be a part of society.”
― David Archer, Time To Hunt

“She’s a maze with no escape. An ethereal, steady pulse. She’s there, but just barely. I love her so much I sometimes hate her. And it terrifies me, because deep down, I know what she is. An unsolvable puzzle. And I know who I am. The idiot who would try to fix her. At any cost.”
― L.J. Shen, Scandalous

“No. My electronics run on two hundred tiny betavoltaic diamond batteries made from radioactive carbon-14. My physical form will wear out long before they ever run out of power, in about six thousand years.”
― David Archer, Black Harvest

“Perhaps most troubling of all, our democracy seems to be teetering on the brink of crisis—a crisis rooted in a fundamental contest between two opposing visions of what America is and what it should be; a crisis that has left the body politic divided, angry, and mistrustful, and has allowed for an ongoing breach of institutional norms, procedural safeguards, and the adherence to basic facts that both Republicans and Democrats once took for granted.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies, I tell my daughters—and at least that was true for me at Harvard.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“The responsibility of tackling these problems didn’t scare me. In fact, I relished the chance. But from everything I was learning, things were likely to get significantly worse before they got better.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“The circumstances, I felt, demanded it. The October jobs report, released three days after the election, was dismal: 240,000 jobs lost (revisions would later reveal that the true number was 481,000).”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“That feels like what happened. A collective, unspoken decision was made that for a few weeks at least, the country would take a much-needed break from cynicism.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Sometimes it didn’t matter how good your process was. Sometimes you were just screwed, and the best you could do was have a stiff drink—and light up a cigarette.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Hey big boy, cant wait for you I just got Glow in the dark condoms :D Jake:  Mom, look who your texting!!!!!!!! Mom:  Oh sit, 600$, new laptop and a FERRARI. Jake: NO!! YOUR CHEATING ON DAD!!!!! Mom: And Ill take you to taco bell? Jake: DEAL………….”
― Jothees Buck, TEXT FAILS: The Collective Best Insults and Autocorrect Chat Text Format

“That cat is going to be in a lot of trouble once she gets back to her own territory,” Molewhisker grumbled.”
― Erin Hunter, The Apprentice's Quest

“How you approach the task depends on how you define the threats that the country faces. What do we fear most? Is it the possibility of a Russian nuclear attack, or that a bureaucratic miscalculation or glitch in the software launches one of our warheads by mistake? Is it some fanatic blowing himself up on a subway, or the government, under the guise of protecting you from fanatics, tapping into your email account? Is it a gas shortage caused by disruptions to foreign oil supplies, or the oceans rising and the planet frying? Is it an immigrant family sneaking across a river in search of a better life, or a pandemic disease, incubated by poverty and a lack of public services in a poor country overseas, drifting invisibly into our homes?”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Tom Donilon walked in to brief me on a developing situation involving an issue I’d never been asked about during the campaign. “Pirates?” “Pirates, Mr. President,” Jones said. “Off the coast of Somalia. They boarded a cargo ship captained by an American and appear to be holding the crew hostage.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“I also realized that around the world, in places like Yemen and Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, the lives of millions of young men like those three dead Somalis (some of them boys, really, since the oldest pirate was believed to be nineteen) had been warped and stunted by desperation, ignorance, dreams of religious glory, the violence of their surroundings, or the schemes of older men. They were dangerous, these young men, often deliberately and casually cruel. Still, in the aggregate, at least, I wanted somehow to save them—send them to school, give them a trade, drain them of the hate that had been filling their heads. And yet the world they were a part of, and the machinery I commanded, more often had me killing them instead.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Maybe I’m overstating the consequences of that night. Maybe things were bound to play out as they did, and what nags at me is the simple fact that I screwed up and don’t like being misunderstood. And maybe I’m bothered by the care and delicacy with which one must state the obvious: that it’s possible to understand and sympathize with the frustrations of white voters without denying the ease with which, throughout American history, politicians have redirected white frustration about their economic or social circumstances toward Black and brown people.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Reed was an insane psychotic killer…. He’d killed all those girls. And now he was after me.”
― Katie Alender, Famous Last Words

“For the next few minutes, Edith led the room in hollering “Fired up! Ready to go!” back and forth, again and again. I was confused at first, but figured it would be impolite of me not to join in. And pretty soon, I started to feel kinda fired up! I started to feel like I was ready to go! I noticed everybody at the meeting suddenly was smiling too, and after the chanting was done we settled down and talked for the next hour about the community and the country and what we could do to make it better. Even after I left Greenwood, for the rest of the day, every so often, I’d point to someone on my staff and ask, “You fired up?” Eventually it became a campaign rallying cry. And that, I suppose, was the part of politics that would always give me the most pleasure: the part that couldn’t be diagrammed, that defied planning or analytics. The way in which, when it works, a campaign—and by extension a democracy—proved to be a chorus rather than a solo act.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“So I just sat there, looking into her eyes, wondering if she wanted me to kiss her or not. And then I gathered my nerve, thinking, to heck with it, I would kiss her anyhow. But before I could make a move, Erica ducked away from me, sat on my bed, and began speaking as though we were in the middle of a completely different conversation. “The thing about the Croatoan is that they’re extremely unpredictable… ,” she began. I couldn’t understand what was going on. Until Chip Schacter burst into my room a second later.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Spy School Revolution

“Each time I met a parent struggling to come up with the money to get treatment for a sick child, I thought back to the night Michelle and I had to take a three-month-old Sasha to the emergency room for what turned out to be viral meningitis—the terror and helplessness we felt as the nurses whisked her away for a spinal tap, and the realization that we might never have caught the infection in time had the girls not had a regular pediatrician we felt comfortable calling in the middle of the night.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Edna turned out to be the type of American who mistakenly believed the way to make herself understood to the hotel staff was to speak English very loud and slow, as if that would magically turn it into Spanish. “EXCUSE ME!” she shouted at the waiter. “CAN I HAVE A DRINK?”
― Stuart Gibbs, Spy School Goes South

“MOOCH-ASS GRASSY-ASS, AMIGO!” Edna yelled.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Spy School Goes South