Echo Quotes

“The truth is that we’ve always been greedy and stupid. We have no imagination, and the only reason we’ve survived this long is that we produce just enough smart people to keep us going.”
― Jack McDevitt, Echo

“Fear the assassin who waits in the lonely passages of the heart. —Teri Kilborn, Broken Fences           She”
― Jack McDevitt, Echo

“Home. It is the place where once we lived and laughed, where we grew up with the assumption that all would be well, where we met our first love, where life stretched endlessly ahead. This is the place that now becomes a desert of the heart. —Kory Tyler, Musings, 1412           Gabe”
― Jack McDevitt, Echo

“Eagles commonly fly alone: they are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.”
― Jack McDevitt, Echo

“Truly evil persons do not recognize their own malevolence. They perceive themselves as generous, good-hearted, friendly sorts, who sometimes have to resort to unpleasant tactics for the general betterment of society. Even the historical monsters seem to have had no second thoughts about the damage they were causing. It was that way with Hitler and Oliver Moresby, just as it was with the Greer Avenue Strangler.”
― Jack McDevitt, Echo

“I had never realized that so much communication was non-verbal. That language was a kind of refinement of information passed by other means. We discovered that, with the most limited vocabulary, a half dozen words, you could still cover a lot of ground. And eventually, Belle came back.”
― Jack McDevitt, Echo