Quotes from Brian Freeman

A strategy is only as good as the steps you take to execute it.

The old man wasn't quite gone yet. His lungs gurgled. Rudy was hungry. He checked the refrigerator and found a recent deli bag of sliced turkey. He sat on the bed, finished the turkey, and watched the traffic crawling on the street outside as he waited for Keyes to die.

It flattered me that he found my story intriguing. I didn't understand then, or maybe I was too young to realize, that men can be like that about things they want to own. That one way to control someone is to learn everything about them, so you always have ammunition to use when you need it.

Sometimes she wondered if most writers were really just children who'd never grown up.

Chaos is only the beginning, my friend. It's not enough to wound the beast. That can make him more dangerous when he recovers. No, we must split him apart, tear him down, and then start rebuilding from the ashes. Civil war. Never forget our goal, my friend. All this violence must lead to civil war.

It had been raining for hours, one of those endless fall rains that sucked all the color out of the world and turned your life into a black-and-white movie.

everything in life came down to memories. The good. The bad. The real. The imagined. Put them all together, and that was the person you were.

The only prison we can never escape is our brain, and yet our brain is what sets us free.

Once you saw someone die, you were never the same. A body always left its mark. Katie

Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be

However, memories—unlike reality—aren't fixed. With every recollection, we reshape what we saw. Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be, how we perceive our role in it, what people tell us, and even by what we hear or read about what took place. After a while, our brains can't distinguish between reality and our reconstruction of reality.

The drunk Gen Xers danced fast, as if they were still young, but she knew they'd wake up, roll out of bed, and groan at the ache in their knees.

Let me guess," I said. "This is about Schrödinger's cat." "I'm impressed, Dylan," she replied with a smile. "Hey, I watched The Big Bang Theory.

All my life, I'd been hurrying to get somewhere, without the slightest idea where that was.

It's about how we're all part of an infinite number of parallel worlds. Every time we make a choice, a carbon copy of ourselves makes the opposite choice in a different universe.

Children had the gift, the second sight, the sixth sense. Sometimes she wondered if most writers were really just children who'd never grown up.

You know what they say about psychiatrists, Frost. They only go into the business to find someone crazier than they are.

I remember things that I know are false, and I forget things that I know really happened.

She told them: the hardest part is to start over by building something new.

I told him I was sorry that the woman was gone, that it was brave of him to want to protect her, but there was nothing he could do anymore.

It was too easy to follow the path you were on, rather than looking for cross-trails that might take you somewhere scary.

Someone's praying for my soul again." "Well, you and me need all the help we can get," Virgil replied. "I figure I'm on the smite list if God gets bored.

In other words, reality happens once, but memory happens over and over

My characterization influences your brain.