Alex Scarrow > Quotes

“We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.”
― Alex Scarrow, The Eternal War

“I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!"
"Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?”
― Alex Scarrow, The Eternal War

“In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care...”
― Alex Scarrow, The Eternal War

“The loners are always trouble. You know that.”
― Alex Scarrow, Afterlight

“Oh God, what is it with mankind? Never happy unless it's blowing someone up.”
― Alex Scarrow, TimeRiders

“I sometimes wish I could “reboot”,’ said Sal. ‘Empty my head and start over.”
― Alex Scarrow, The Pirate Kings

“After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.”
― Alex Scarrow, The Eternal War

“Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that kind of knowledge. We're like children casually playing with an atom bomb.”
― Alex Scarrow, TimeRiders

“The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.”
― Alex Scarrow, Afterlight

“It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed.
It sounded like a revolution.
It sounded like hope.”
― Alex Scarrow, The Eternal War

“We all die eventually. But the one thing we can do is seek answers along the way.”
― Alex Scarrow, The Mayan Prophecy

“In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it's the women who suffer. It's the women who learn what it is to be tough, not the men.”
― Alex Scarrow, Afterlight

“She moans about everything anyway. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't with a bitch like her.”
― Alex Scarrow, Afterlight

“There isn't anything you can't make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.”
― Alex Scarrow, Afterlight

“It was easy enough to invent theological-sounding passages, provided you used the right language. Most people presumed you were quoting something too obscure for them to recognise.”
― Alex Scarrow, Afterlight

“She hates that word. Nice is what you call ice cream, or a paper doily, or fluffy bunny rabbit print pattern.”
― Alex Scarrow, Afterlight

“His dying mind conjured up one last, reassuring thought.
In the end, don't we all come from dust anyway? We come from dust... and we end as dust.
The oh-so-short passage in between is the bit we call 'life'.
Everything ends eventually.
Everything.”
― Alex Scarrow, The Infinity Cage

“The Saracens surrendered to Richard. And he had every last one of them beheaded. There was a hill of heads, a hill that grew gradually out of the moat and spilled on to the plain.’ Liam looked down at a potato bobbing in his soup and all of a sudden felt a little less hungry.”
― Alex Scarrow, TimeRiders: The Doomsday Code

“That was the tribal system at school: the girls—giggly gaggles of Miley Cyrus clones, the jocks in their swaggering gangs … and finally the third category, the ones like Edward Chan—the freaks. Loners, emos, geeks, nerds: the cookies that didn’t quite fit the cookie-cutter machine that was high school.”
― Alex Scarrow, Day of the Predator

“Was... That a "you've been a clever boy" kiss? Or... Uh...”
― Alex Scarrow, The Mayan Prophecy

“If you're reading this, then I guess someone, somewhere does go through the rubbish and read every piece of paper that gets balled up and tossed away. So in that case here it is- my name's Sal.”
― Alex Scarrow, City of Shadows

“bemusement”
― Alex Scarrow, TimeRiders

“Science is a thought process that can be proven or disproven. Whereas philosophy, religion, art . . . ?' He shrugged again, dismissively. 'With those areas of thought, everyone's opinion is considered valid. No one, therefore is "wrong". Which logically means no one is right. It's circular thinking that gets no one anywhere.”
― Alex Scarrow, The Infinity Cage

“heroine.”
― Alex Scarrow, A Monster Among Us

“definitely”
― Alex Scarrow, Silent Tide

“knocked and”
― Alex Scarrow, Old Bones New Bones

“I'd love to give Jesus a Dictaphone or something, so we could play back what he actually said to some idiots speaking on his behalf today”
― Alex Scarrow, The Infinity Cage

“Hoffman looked down at the body bag. The order had come directly from the Führer’s senior field officer, Reichsmarschall Haas to Hoffman’s commanding officer. Der Führer had asked to inspect this curious body for himself… and to ask the men who’d seen what happened to explain directly to him what they’d witnessed. The clattering from above had grown much louder. He looked up, carefully shading his eyes, to see the yawning loading bay was now only twenty or thirty feet above them. The freight platform finally jerked to a halt inside the bay where Hoffman saw a couple of SS Leibstandarte guards standing to attention, dressed crisply in ceremonial black. For an unhappy moment he thought they were going to take possession of the body bag and send Hoffman and his two men back down. But, with a perfunctory nod from one of them, they beckoned Hoffman and the others to follow. A stairwell guarded by two more men took them to the upper deck. The battleship-grey walls that Hoffman and his men had grown used to on the way over – living like battery chickens on the lower decks as Das Mutterschiff sailed gracefully south from the conquered area around New York – now gave way to dark oak panels. The floor no longer metal grilles but a soft maroon carpet that whispered beneath his muddied combat boots. Ahead of them, double doors guarded by two more SS Leibstandarte standing to attention. ‘Oberleutnant Hoffman, to see the Führer,’ announced one of the guards who’d escorted them up from the bay. One of the two standing guard announced their arrival into an intercom. A moment later a young smartly dressed adjutant appeared”
― Alex Scarrow, TimeRiders

“it is in our nature to destroy ourselves, then rebuild. Destruction is a natural part of our life-cycle.”
― Alex Scarrow, The Mayan Prophecy

“She laughed. 'See? You can do philosophy!'
He rolled his eyes and shook his head. 'Don't insult me.”
― Alex Scarrow, The Infinity Cage