Quotes About Survival

Succeed or die. Either we stop the Apocalypse, or we're caught right in the middle of it.", FADE by Kailin Gow

The Apocalypse. Millions… billions of people dying. And that's just the first phase of it. The initial disaster has knock on effects. It kills so many people, but it isn't quite the end of the world. In our time though it looks like we are heading for that.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Sometimes history can be brutal" - Auntabelle, Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome by Kira G. and Kailin Gow

Humanity will be gone. No. I won't allow that. I can't allow that. Whatever it takes. Even if it kills me.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Lizard people?" Jack raises an eyebrow. "I have to call them something. And 'lizard people' is a little less scary than 'big, invulnerable thing that nearly killed us'." "Lizard people it is," Jack agrees., FADE by Kailin Gow

Lots of animals are smaller than they used to be. Look at the size crocodiles used to be around the time of the dinosaurs. Or most of the huge mammals following that. Sometimes, being smaller means that you don't have to find as much food.", FADE by Kailin Gow

People shouldn't look that scared of anything. There shouldn't be things in the world capable of doing that to someone. The trouble is, I know exactly the kind of thing that could make someone that scared. I've seen them. I've been chased by them.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

When you've been captured as often I have, you develop an interest in locks and escapology.

I've lived through Hitler, Stalin, the Cold War, the British Empire, segregation, apartheid, God knows what. The world will survive this, and with just a tiny bit of luck so will everyone you love.

Days – no, weeks – after the bomb and everything still smelt of burning.

At the time, I remained relatively calm before that spectacle of horrors, which is perhaps the most telling indication of just how desensitized I had become. The more I witnessed such atrocities and rubbed shoulders with death, the more I desired to stay alive, no matter the cost.

I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very hungry human was capable of stealing food from its little ones while an animal, perhaps, was not.

London, London, London town, You can toughen up or get thrown around.

No one as intense as he was could could possibly have managed to survive until almost thirty without thinking about death from time to time.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

'The Cabin at the End of the World' is my riff on the 'home invasion' subgenre of horror/suspense. Hopefully it's a big, loud, dark riff.

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

'Island of the Blue Dolphins' by Scott O'Dell had a huge impact on me.

We have lived through so much alone and isolated.

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.