Phyllis

“Nostalgia is basically the ability to forget the things that sucked.”
― Nelson DeMille, Up Country

“Most guys arrived here normal, and they were shocked and sickened by the behavior of the guys who'd been here a while. Then within a few weeks, they'd stop being shocked, and within a few months a lot of them joined the club of the crazies. And most of them, I think, went home and became normal again, though some didn't. But I never once saw anyone here who had gone around the bend ever return to normal while they were still here. It only got worse because in this environment they'd lost any sense of. . . humanity. Or you could be nice and say they'd become desensitized. It was actually more frightening than sickening. A guy who'd sliced off the ear of a VC he'd killed that morning would be joking with the village kids and the old Mama-sans that afternoon and handing out candy. I mean, they weren't evil or psychotic, we were normal, which is was really scared the hell out of me.”
― Nelson DeMille, Up Country

“Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.”
― Nelson DeMille, The General's Daughter

“Е, това беше дълбоката ми мисъл за деня, а още нямаше десет сутринта.
Оправих вратовръзката си и се замислих за физиономия. Я да видим… Имаше

голяма вероятност да съм затънал до ушите в лайна, затова реших да изглеждам

весел и доволен, че съм там.
Възприех съответното изражение и тръгнах към бюрото си.”
― Nelson DeMille, Night Fall