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“The pursuit of happiness seems worthwhile only because of the chase. You love it only if you don’t realize you’re never going to catch up.”
― Bryan Way, Life After: The Void

“Every moment we wait, we get closer to being too late.”
― Bryan Way, Life After: The Phoenix

“How does it look?” Richard asks.
“You know the expression about shit hitting the fan?”
“Yeah.”
“It looks like the other side of the fan.”
― Bryan Way, Life After: The Arising

“Look… I don’t think the universe exists on a basis of reasons…” Mia starts. “…it’s causality without meaning. Evolution is causality… but it doesn’t have significance because we attained consciousness. Imposing meaning on a void is like looking down the barrel of a gun after someone pulls the trigger and asking why the bullet wants to kill you. Just because you see a face on Mars doesn’t mean it’s there.”
― Bryan Way, Life After: The Basement

“When I got home, I thought about the fact that Einstein supposedly used to stock his wardrobe with the same suits and shoes so he’d never have to think about what he was going to wear. I lack the intellect it takes to solve problems that way. I’ve advanced nothing in the field of psychology, and my paper on PTSD was given little attention; I wrote that psychological disorders with a genetic link, such as borderline personality disorder, might seem impossible to treat, while PTSD, which is based in trauma that has been experienced, seems easy to tackle, at least to the layperson. The opposite is true. It can be difficult to find the right medication for genetic disorders, but they can be sufficiently treated. Conversely, PTSD never goes away. One might think that our genes are so elementary that we cannot escape them, but our experiences have the ability to do far greater damage.”
― Bryan Way, Hosts

“Through a liquid state of body high, Holt can feel a dull pain
wash over his body. In any other state of consciousness, he might
have referred to it as panic. His heart gives out simultaneously with a
rush of sound and activity. Somewhere between the paddles introducing
an electrical storm to his chest and the impending minutes of
total blackness, he prays that he’ll be able to come back from wherever
it is he’s going. Though this panic is the last thing he’ll ever feel,
he knows, somehow, that he will.”
― Bryan Way, Life After: The Cemetery Plot

“The bioelectricity of her brain has ceased to function, and as I lay here, the cells are beginning to degenerate and every thought and memory she had is irretrievably fading into nothing. We were like phone towers in concert, reciprocating, each useless without the other, and now I feel like a massive star extending its light, heat, and gravitational pull into a radiant and beautiful universe only to discover that it is singularly without planets, only holding down a vestigial field of cold, dark rocks.”
― Bryan Way, Life After: The Arising

“I’m not going to tell you this is God’s judgment… but I have to wonder. The Rapture comes after the Tribulation… that’s New Testament. I don’t remember the Bible being very clear on that…”
“There wasn’t a bulleted list?”
“Heh…”
“Well, I figured with the ten commandments the lord liked to keep things itemized…”
“Less than you’d think… anyway, this fits the build.”
“Resurrection?”
“Not… really. But depending on how you look at it, Jesus was a Zombie, right?”
― Bryan Way, Life After: The Arising

“Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.”
― Bryan Way

“Nobody's innocent... but that doesn't reset the bar on guilt.”
― Bryan Way, Life After: The Void

“How do you get to Carnegie Hall?”
“I-95.”
― Bryan Way, Life After: The Void

“The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.”
― Bryan Way

“When you open yourself up to people, you show them where to put the knife in.”
― Bryan Way, Life After: The Void

“There are bad people out there, Jimmy. I don’t know if you’ve seen them… they walk around like they’re lost. And they make people sick by hurting them. That’s why we stay inside.”
― Bryan Way, Life After: The Void

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain