Edmund Bonczyk II > Edmund's Quotes

“Christians rejected the need for proof to support belief in God, yet dismissed proof altogether when it was there.”
― Kira Peikoff, Living Proof

“You take any past era in history, and propose that one day the Earth will sustain seven billion people. They’d never believe you. They’d think everyone would starve and die. And yet the industrial revolution proved that a growing population could thrive. In a scientific world, there’s no limitation to how many people can live in it.”
― Kira Peikoff, No Time to Die

“I’m happy to be here,” she said loudly, as much to the room as to Helen. “So when do we get down to business?”
― Kira Peikoff, No Time to Die

“When you act like a nice guy, everyone examines your motives with a microscope. When you act like a conscienceless louse, they generally take you at face value.”
― Donald Hamilton, The Wrecking Crew

“I'm not responsible for what other people think, only for what I am.”
― Donald Hamilton, The Big Country

“There's nothing more frightening to me than a character who thinks he knows what a real American is – mainly because it generally turns out he’s convinced it's somebody like him. It seems an odd notion to me. I certainly don't want to live in a country populated with people just like me, God forbid! Anyway, I figure there’s room for a little variety in a nation as big as ours.”
― Donald Hamilton

“Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.”
― Mickey Spillane

“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”
― Mickey Spillane

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“Take what you want and pay for it, says God”
― Spanish Proverb

“When Matt talked about particles being in two places at once, I understood it as a mother. I always existed in two places simultaneously as well: wherever circumstance had placed me, and wherever Morgan was. The only interruption during those next few quiet minutes was when the court reporter walked in and took her seat in the corner, where her steno machine had already been set up.”
― Brad Parks, Interference