31 Quotes by Benedict Jacka

Congrats, you’ve just had your first assassination attempt.

My would-be assassin was a very good shot.

If you write down someone’s life, do they live for ever?

I’ll use my divination and look into the future. Hey, you know what, I’m seeing the future right now. If I stand here and wait, then in three minutes a train’s going to come. And after that, another train’s going to come. Here, I’ll let you guess what’s going to happen afterwards. I’ll give you a hint – there’s a train.

Someone who’s amoral and selfish can be a threat to you, but they’re also a threat to everyone else, and that tends to limit how much time they can spend on you personally. But someone who believes in what he’s doing can convince other people that opposing you is the right thing to do. In the long run, that’s a lot more dangerous.

You weren’t using that hand at the restaurant either.’ ‘That’s because it doesn’t work.’ ‘You’re doing an op like this with only one hand?’ ‘Yes.

It’s so easy to believe that today’s going to be the same as yesterday, and most of the time it is the same as yesterday, and so it just goes on, one day after another, blending into a comforting sameness. Until it stops. I.

I’ve been waiting for this a long time.“-Martin “Let me guess that you’re wishing for your IQ to break double figures?“- Alex V.

If there’s one thing all diviners share, it’s curiosity. We really can’t help it; it’s just part of who we are. If you dug out a tunnel somewhere in the wilderness a thousand miles from anywhere and hung a sign on it saying, Warning, this leads to the Temple of Horrendous Doom. Do not enter, ever. No, not even then, you’d get back from lunch to find a diviner already inside and two more about to go in. Come to think about it, that might explain why there are so few of us.