The Lost Cause Quotes

“Slowly I returned to the world, and Phuong’s fingers were on mine. “Oh. My. God. Aspirational urban planning is so fucking hot,” she hissed in my ear. We barely made it to her room before we tore our clothes off.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Lost Cause

“Oh. My. God. Aspirational urban planning is so fucking hot,” she hissed in my ear.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Lost Cause

“If we’re going to get popped by the cops, let it be because we were doing guerrilla refugee shelter, not guerrilla warfare. ‘If I can’t build, I don’t wanna be a part of your revolution.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Lost Cause

“If they get their way, it won’t be by killing everyone who disagrees with them—it’ll be by convincing people that resisting will hurt worse than it will help. If they can’t scare or demoralize or traumatize us into submission, they can’t win.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Lost Cause

“People were great. That was something easy to lose sight of because when they were dicks, the experience was so out of the ordinary that you lost sight of just how great they were the rest of the time.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Lost Cause

“I knew that the world couldn’t survive if these people got their way. They wanted genocide, and if that wasn’t bad enough, they had stupid, poisonous ideas that would cook the planet and leave us all to roast, drown, or die of plagues. They were a threat to the fucking species. What kind of commitment to being nice or not picking fights was more important than that fact?”
― Cory Doctorow, The Lost Cause

“Do I need to look at my screen? Do I need to look at it now? What do I hope to find? When will I be done?”
― Cory Doctorow, The Lost Cause

“there are some objectively decent people who don’t love mushrooms, though I don’t claim to be able to reconcile those two facts.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Lost Cause

“The fucking joke is on you, boys. Oh, this is such a good joke. That dioxin plume out there, the reason we’re all hiding in here with tape over the windows? It is salting the Earth. The particulate that settles over this town will poison it for years. There is no dose of dioxin that is considered safe for human health.

“Burbank is a superfund site, my dudes. And you are all refugees now.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Lost Cause