Political Fiction Quotes

“Keep those eyes of yours, mate, wide-fucking-open. Never know when it’s watching.”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

“She lowers the volume of this Safe and Top-Trending song titled... "Love Ain’t No Thang But a Chicken Wang.” ”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

“You are there and to their ears, being a Syrian sounds like you’re unclean, shameful, indecent; it’s like you owe the world an apology for your very existence.”
― Asaad Almohammad, An Ishmael of Syria

“The blind faith in some half-assed conspiracy theories lines up with the logic of having to believe in something with no questions asked. It gives us peace and comfort. As simple as I was, I found that resorting to this absolute nonsense was the root of all our problems. It was a road of willingly-learned helplessness, for no action could make a difference, thereby no action was needed.”
― Asaad Almohammad, An Ishmael of Syria

“Marco opened the walkway gate just as a sprightly grey lizard skittered across the stone path. A bougainvillea vine laden with a riot of purple blooms scaled the right side of the house, and the heady scent of gardenias saturated the air.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

“Future Politics
Effecting change in national politics was mostly a matter of making better use of online forums, encouraging voters to press forth with hard questions, providing statistics and solutions. Direct-to-voter referendums became an increasingly common way of effecting national policy. If Congress were deadlocked over a particular issue, the voters would be asked to make up their minds for them in the form of an online referendum.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

“Written twenty years after she held office, this abridged biography is being released now, prior to taking place.

Maybe we can learn from history before it happens.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

“It is easier to start a war than to end it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it," he said with deep bitterness. "I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Soon, Joanna’s strength waned, and she was reduced to loose slaps on his shoulders and cries of: “Tell me where my baby is.” She sobbed and broke down, literally collapsing on top of him. “Please tell me where my baby is.”
― Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

“For all Conor Lenihan cared it could have been Osama Bin Laden who had organised the whole thing. He was simply a mercenary doing a job of work.”
― Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

“Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Immigration is an opaque glass box whose front door opens outwards.”
― Eva Asprakis, Thirty-Eight Days of Rain

“Life’s a no-rules cage fight.” That’s what Alex used to say—back when he still had fire in his eyes, when it sounded like a creed. Now Lena repeated the words to herself and they echoed hollow.”
― Slava Pilotoff, The Russian Gladiator: A Psychological Dystopian Thriller Set in Modern Russia

“There are aliens. You’re absolutely right about that [...] Never thought you’d hear anyone admit it, did you? Well. It’s true. Do you want me to let you in on another little secret?” [...]They do not give a shit about us. They look at us the way we look at amoebas under a microscope. They barely register our sad little planet’s existence. And they’re content to let us keep killing each other until we go extinct. [...]We’re not alone. But we might as well be.”
― Christopher Farnsworth, Deep State

“Seven minutes later, the final recipe for recovery of the great nation was read out to him when he stood, bending over the coffee table in front of the two financial doctors, while the water still dripped onto the carpet from the wet bath towel wrapped around the waist of the new Prime Minister of India.”
― Vinod Pande, Minister’s Mistress - Not only the sins come calling

“The shared torment of two separate individuals at the hands of their marital partners has a strange capacity to act as the glue for the bruised souls of both.”
― Vinod Pande, Minister’s Mistress - Not only the sins come calling

“Most of those who romanticize female guerrillas in my country also pose as feminists and women's rights advocates. It's particularly disappointing and distressing that this is said by those who wouldn't want to spend even two days in the mountains, those who can't even hold a stick in their hands. The struggle maintains its romanticism thanks to those who do not want to be victims themselves but prefer others to be.”
― Aytekin Yılmaz, Ernesto'nun Dağları

“Even if the party members were unaware, Sanchoism was becoming a religion, and Sancho himself was advancing on the path to becoming a prophet. How did it come to this? Those who embarked on a journey with the theory of scientific socialism in the geography of the Middle East were reverting to their true origins when they came into power. Within the party, the comradely relations of the past were giving way to a leader-disciple relationship.”
― Aytekin Yılmaz

“A newspaper article predicted that we would no longer see any mountain peaks, seas, or adult bodies that were whole in twenty years. We had grown accustomed to these horrifying speculations, the same way we read about faraway countries with long and foreign-sounding names wrecked by war, earthquakes, storms, and massacres. There would be a moment when we fell into wordless grief, but with the turn of a page, we would get inundated by job and real-estate listings and restaurant advertisements again. People weren’t indifferent; it was just that, for those of us who lived here, the future always felt so surreal.”
― Hon Lai Chu

“Freedom begins where fear ends.”
― Marjan Mitrovic, New Slavery

“You don’t get it, babe,” he said, still looking at the sky. “World War III already started.”
― Slava Pilotoff

“You don’t get it, babe,” he said, still looking at the sky. “World War III already started.” She propped herself up on one elbow, confused. Around them families picnicked, kids ran on the playground—what war? But Alex wasn’t kidding.”
― Slava Pilotoff, The Russian Gladiator: A Psychological Dystopian Thriller Set in Modern Russia

“In her phone, his number was saved as “Gladiator”—not his real name. That way, it wouldn’t hurt as much to delete it later.”
― Slava Pilotoff, The Russian Gladiator: A Psychological Dystopian Thriller Set in Modern Russia

“People always think the best is still ahead.”
― Slava Pilotoff, The Russian Gladiator: A Psychological Dystopian Thriller Set in Modern Russia

“Husband . . . Father . . .” her mom mocked. “You think it’s the same man. But war slices people open. You married one man. The one crawling back from war? That’s a zombie. Same face, but inside—just rot.”
― Slava Pilotoff, The Russian Gladiator: A Psychological Dystopian Thriller Set in Modern Russia

“The war didn’t break everything. It just kept unraveling afterward. The men dragged it back home with them...”
― Slava Pilotoff, The Russian Gladiator: A Psychological Dystopian Thriller Set in Modern Russia

“Lena squeezed her eyes shut until white flashes popped. And in that moment she knew: nothing would ever be the same again. Childhood was over, and the world would never go back to what it was.”
― Slava Pilotoff, The Russian Gladiator: A Psychological Dystopian Thriller Set in Modern Russia

“Being with him was like smashing against a stone wall—shattering into pieces on impact. He stood unshakable, all steel and rage, hearing nothing but the roar of war inside his head.”
― Slava Pilotoff, The Russian Gladiator: A Psychological Dystopian Thriller Set in Modern Russia

“This was what they’d been told all along in the army: “It’s us or them. War’s coming. No way around it.” And now the day had come, and in Alex’s eyes it felt not just inevitable but right.”
― Slava Pilotoff, The Russian Gladiator: A Psychological Dystopian Thriller Set in Modern Russia