Nabila Tabassum Chowdhury’s Reviews > Ex Machina, Book Two > Status Update

"THIS IS WHAT TERRORISM IS, MR. MAYOR. ALL IT TAKES IS THAT FIRST SPARK OF VIOLENCE, AND THE WILDFIRE WILL JUST KEEP TAKING MORE AND MORE LIVES, UNTIL THE SOURCE OF THE INFERNO IS EXTINGUISHED."

""THIS IS LIFE DURING WARTIME, AND I NEED SOMEONE I TRUST AT MY SIDE, QUESTIONING EVERY UNCOMFORTABLE MARCHING ORDER I'M FORCED TO GIVE. I'M NOT GONNA PROMISE THAT I'LL ALWAYS DO WHAT YOU SAY, BUT IT'S VITALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT THAT I HEAR IT, ALL RIGHT?"

"I SLEEP OKAY AT NIGHT, SIR. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN, TOO."

"I RUN NEW YORK CITY, DAVE. I DON'T GET TO SLEEP.""

""BEFORE SHE HUNG UP, SHE SAID, "HE WHO SACRIFICES LIBERTY FOR SECURITY DESERVES NEITHER." YOU KNOW WHO WROTE THAT."

"I KNOW IT WAS ATTRIBUTED TO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, BUT IT ONLY APPEARED IN A BOOK HE HAPPENED TO PUBLISH.""

"I WON'T EXACTLY LIGHT A CANDLE IF A GUY WHO KILLS HIS OWN PEOPLE CATCHES A BULLET."

"IT WAS THE FUNNY PAGES THAT TOOK DOWN BOSS TWEED, YOU KNOW? HIS CONSTITUENTS COULDN'T READ THE NEWS, BUT THEY KNEW HOW TO READ THE COMICS. COMICS! TALK ABOUT BEING HOISTED BY MY OWN GODDAMN PETARD!"

""I told you, he's not a soldier, sir. He's a mayor, like you. Of New York City. They call it the second hardest job in the world."

"Who does? The Americans? What do they know about hard?
Try getting water and electricity to seven million people who want you dead because our idiot "leader" killed their third cousin.""

"IT LIED, KID.
SOONER OR LATER, EVERYBODY DOES."

"AND JUSTICE?"

"SHIT, MAN THERE'S NO THERE'S NO JUSTICE. THERE'S JUST US."

""NAH, TRUTH ENDED WHEN THEY SHOT MLK."

"THE AMERICAN WAY DIED OVER IN VIETNAM.""

""THAT'S B.S.! YOU CAN'T ERASE HISTORY!"

"HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS."

"OH, SAVE YOUR TIRED OLD CHURCHILL CRAP, HUNDRED. THIS IS THE MAN OF STEEL! WHAT ELSE DID THEY GET RID OF, TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY?""