Amir Youssef

“I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me : I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all ; believe none of us.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“just as the world of before had presidents who came and went. Meanwhile, it was the men in the shadows who wielded the true power, those whose terms had no limits. That this silo operated by the same deceit should not be surprising; it was the only way such men knew how to run anything.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“With enough revolutions and elections, enough transfers of power, eventually a madman would take the reins. It was inevitable.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“It has all gone so fast, Duke. Like a dream. How is it the days crawl by and yet the years fly?”
― Lawrence Sanders, The Anderson Tapes