Chris Campbell

“This was how the shift was supposed to go. Waiting and then doing. Sleeping and then waiting. Make it to dinner and then make it to bed. The end was always in sight. There was nothing to rebel against, just a routine, until the now faded into the past, and the future wilted and died.”
― Hugh Howey, First Shift: Legacy

“He later said, “I remember there was some chicken -- some killer fowl -- being locked in some cell somewhere, and I’m talking to this stuntman -- it’s crazy, me talking to this Janos Prohaska, [who was] Hungarian or something... [saying], ‘Janos, okay that’s good, baby, now try this.’ And there’s this big chicken -- this killer chicken -- or some equivalent. I mean, it was nuts.” (26-3)”
― Marc Cushman, These are the Voyages: TOS Season One

“They say no plan survives first contact with implementation. I’d have to agree.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“He also carried that whiff of unearned arrogance that seems to cling to those who crave authority for the sheer sake of power.”
― Blake Crouch, The Last Town