Lauren

“You might not think it, but it was always the farmers who raised hell in this country. They worked for themselves, were self-reliant, and weren’t about to take shit from anybody. But then some clever bastard figured out how to make crops inedible. My family’s been doing industrial farming for forty years and all it produces is debt, pollution, and water shortages. It ruins the land and the people on it.”
― Daniel Suarez, Freedom™

“You see it best in humans. How the women outlive the men in most every case. I think that’s for a reason. I think it’s because they can handle it. Females. Women. They have a grit in them. One we males like to pretend we have by brandishing our swords and gritting our teeth through the gore and piling our money up by swindling others. Feeding off the high of the battle. The thrill of living on the run. It’s all the same. But in the end, it’s the quiet that gets us. It’s ourselves we can’t stand to face. To keep company with too long. Females are built to lose, then pick themselves up and carry on. We aren’t made for that.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Realm of Shattered Lies

“The bottom-line, basic need of every real Christian,” he said, “is to bear fruit like Christ. You can count on it. Every true Christian has that need, whether they want to admit it or not. The Holy Spirit in them, it just yearns for that. And the further they are from fulfilling it, the emptier they are. Jesus cares about filling that emptiness . . . for a lot of reasons. One of them is our own happiness, but the bigger reason is that . . . it’s not about us. It’s about advancing God’s kingdom. We’re about advancing God’s kingdom. And if we aren’t acting like Christ, then we’re missing it. It’s like we’re children of the king, but we’re living in a dirt shack and eating pig food.”
― Terri Blackstock, The Heart Reader

“Ninety percent of Walmart's shelves are stocked with consumables made in other countries, from China and Mexico and Brazil. What happens when our imports grind to a halt? It creates a domino effect, a systemic collapse where each falling domino affects all the others—food, transportation, energy, banking.”
― Kyla Stone, Nuclear Dawn #1-5: The Post-Apocalyptic Box Set