Code of Conduct (Cipher Security, #1)

by April White

“Search engine is just the term people use to make artificial intelligence sound like it works for us.”

“Fear and excitement produce the exact same physiological response. It’s what you do with all that adrenaline that makes things interesting.”

I didn’t know what to do with the thought that someone else could keep me safe. No one had done that in a long time, and honestly, the job hadn’t really been open for applicants.

“Someone very dear to me once pointed out that supporting someone and fixing them are two different things. Loving and accepting all the broken pieces is the very definition of friendship.” “That’s a good one,” I said. “The advice I got was ‘always know where your exits are’.”

I’d like to think our childhood dreams of romantic or heroic futures can be allowed to fade quietly into the background of who we become.”

“There’s no problem so awful that you can’t add some guilt to it and make it even worse.” Her laughter was genuine this time. “You’re quoting Calvin and Hobbes to me?”

“Did someone say that out loud, or did you hear it in your head?”

Apologies are what inevitably happen when you allow people to matter to you.”

“In my head, you’ve had one foot out the door, and I’ve been protecting myself from that the whole time.” I scoffed. “In my head, something was going to happen to you that I couldn’t prevent, and I’ve been protecting myself from that the entire time.” “I’ll survive whatever happens to me, Gabriel.” “I don’t leave the people I love, Shane.”