Quotes from Marcus Sakey

But there was no pressing CTRL+Z on a day, no loading a previous copy.

had that stale feel, too much coffee washing down too much beef jerky. What he'd really been craving was a double cheeseburger, but while it would surprise no one to see a trucker gone flabby around the middle, it was a point of pride that at thirty-nine he

The secret to the game is that beginners—actually, intermediate players, too, and sometimes masters—they tend to look at just the one side. But the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.

It's a lousy salesman who talks too much.

Everybody wants. Without that, what are you? Just an animal taking care of needs.

He told her she was right. That for all they knew, they still knew nothing. That for all they knew, there were still worlds after this one, eternities that followed the abyss. And he told her that if they died tomorrow, he would follow her across them. He would chase her through existence if that's what it took.

She said, "'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked…'" She parted the curtains, looked out at the brick wall opposite and the street below. "Never really understood the poem, but I like the way the words taste.

obfuscate or

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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

on; he might not be too late after all. The rain had picked up, and Cooper hurried up the walkway, still wishing for a jacket. As he approached the front door, he heard footsteps

bottoms and a worn T-shirt with a Greenpeace logo. Natalie's feet were bare, her hair pulled into a ponytail. She smiled at him.

see them." "They're asleep." "Can I pop in anyway?" "Sure," she said. "I just

they had an unselfconscious comfort that normally required long intimacy. Maybe it was because he'd been thinking about her all month, waiting for her to appear, and the anticipation had been akin to actually being together.

Existence was a chain. Life at one end, vibrant and powerful; nothingness at the other.

Truth is a slippery concept." "No, the great thing about the truth is that it's true.

Senator Blake Crouch (D-Colo.), who

she was so small, you couldn't help but imagine what she looked like naked." -- Brilliance, 2013

she had the honesty of someone with nothing to prove.

We're all background characters in someone else's movie.

she was so small, you couldn't help but imagine what she looked like naked.

He wasn't scared exactly, but he had that knife's edge thinness he used to get on the job, the sense that things could go either way.

Cooper took a sip of coffee. It was burned and watery. "You hear there was another bombing? Philadelphia this time. I was listening to the radio on the way in. Talk radio, some redneck. He said a war was coming. Told us to open our eyes.

When people are scared, it's easy for them to decide anything different is evil. To forget that everyone is basically the same, that we all love our families and want regular lives. And what makes it worse is that some people use that. They make others scared on purpose, because they know if they do, everyone will start acting stupid. -But why would they want that? -It's a way to control people. A way to get what they want.