9 Quotes by Adam Sternbergh

Here’s to the person you might have been, and to the person you have become. May they never meet in a dark alley.

The thought of just how inadequate the body's natural defenses --skull, bone, brain-- were in the face of the advanced physics-- lead, gun-powder, momentum -- of invented death. It all seemed so absurd to him: that a life comprising so many accumulated years could be interrupted with such indifferent swiftness.

There's nothing special about this place, he thinks. We all forget. Then we forget what we forgot. And that's how we survive.

It all seemed so absurd to him: that a life comprising so many accumulated years could be interrupted with such indifferent swiftness. The fundamental fragility of it all.

So strange don't you think? To ascend to such a high position in your lifetime and then be totally forgotten? I mean, who even remembers Schuyler Colfax? Or John C. Breckinridge?''The history boooks do.

[She] sees. She knows. She understands. About evil, or whatever you care to name it. It comes. It's relentless. It doesn't care if you forgot it. It searches, and it finds you, and it arrives on your doorstep one day, and it lights up a screen, it calls you by your real name, it smiles at you, it says hello, it eyes your son and promises to take him home.

For unto you is given this day a boot to the head.

The thought of just how inadequate the body’s natural defenses – skull, bone, brain – were in the face of the advanced physics – lead, gun-powder, momentum – of invented death. It all seemed so absurd to him: that a life comprising so many accumulated years could be interrupted with such indifferent swiftness.

People get upset when you say you kill people. Fair enough.