Lone Wolf Quotes

“His appearance wasn’t repugnant because it was some sort of reflection of his moral state. It was repugnant because of how clearly it showed just how little he cared.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“I know when you’re feeling insecure or agitated or happy based on which phrases you use in your social-media posts, YouTube comments, texts, emails, and podcasts. I know whether you had an aunt hospitalized for paranoid schizophrenia and when you’re searching symptoms of depression online. I know who you associate with, who you prefer to see on what day of the week, and which restaurant you’re most likely to pick depending on who you’re with. I know when you’re capable of absorbing a rent increase and when you’re at risk of breaking a lease. I know your fertility cycle from one tracker, your”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“another. I’m in beta for a contactless heart monitor that bounces sound waves off the people around you so we can access their bioinformatics, too.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“I know when you want me to tell you my widgets or soap bars are environmental or invested in social justice so you can feel virtuous buying from me.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“smart TVs peering into your rooms, the smart fitness mirrors in your home gym, et cetera. From any one of them I can collect over a hundred thousand data points a year and I can weave them together to compile comprehensive data logs for every member of your household. I know your visitors from your doorbell cams, who you talk to on the phone, what you say, what books and articles you’re reading. I know when you need to replace the toner in your printer before you do, when you need to reorder paper towels, when the lights go on and off in your house. I know what you look at on any screen and for how long, down to one-millimeter movements of your mouse.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“I have eyes and ears in your phone, in your car, your smart appliances and virtual assistants, in the”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“agency I take from you. People”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“You feel a twinge of regret each time you click and yet you do it, you override your better instincts because the alternative is inconvenient. So you value laziness over rigor, convenience over responsibility, submission over freedom. And in doing so you consent to cede every last bit of”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“Imagine if I told you thirty years ago that every American would spend thousands of dollars on devices that remove them from reality, that place control over their persons in the hands of corporations, that cede access to their nervous system, that chart their every location and activity, that invade not just their privacy”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“but the inner workings of their minds, and that they would do so willingly, even enthusiastically? What would our founders say? The framers of the Constitution?”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“Preceding generations bequeathed you the world, despite all its imperfections and shortcomings, he’d told twelve-year-old Evan. For that they deserve an assurance that you won’t make them irrelevant. If you do, you wind up fighting the past and destabilizing the present.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“You Can’t Deposit Excuses!”),”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“Every man has a secret in him”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“Evan let the thought in. tried to find the right one to send back out. "If you give up, it's just a fuck-you to anyone who ever cared about you.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“I'll text you the address of their suspected headquarters," Melinda said. "I'm sure you can get some answers from them."
"Oh man," Joey said, "those poor fuckers.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“Clouds boiled up over the opposing ridge, backlit and tumultuous. A scorched violet sangria sky breathed its last breaths.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“Wyoming’s got the strongest privacy laws in the country, basically zero regulatory oversight. Hide a trust inside a tangle of private companies with concealed ownership and you’re invisible. Even Russians oligarchs and Argentine mobsters have caught on.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“At last she looked over, hazel eyes flecked with green regarding him over those defined cheeks. A forbidding gaze, her face an inscrutable cliff face against which you could throw yourself for eternity and never find a handhold. She was precisely what she was and”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“Evan needed to do was waste time dicking around with a bunch of suburban-dad-looking human traffickers.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“At the mouth of her bedroom, still facing away, she slid one slipper off with a toe and then the other.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“Women know everything, Evan. Especially about men. We know which men actually like women. Which men respect us. The ones who are scared of us. The ones who are really scared of us – the controlling ones. We know who wants us to take care of them. Who wants to save us. Who wants to be our daddy. Who wants to get into our pants. Who wants to make love to us.’ She paused. ‘Who’s curious.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“Spaced precisely three inches apart, the bottles represented the finest and rarest vodkas in the world. His gaze settled on one in particular. Ensconced in a black leather case, it came with a small wooden hammer with a brush in place of a claw. Beluga Gold Line was distilled at the freezing edge of Siberia, three hundred kilometers from the nearest sign of man. Manufactured with hyaline artisanal water for pure-as-the-driven-snow clarity and with coached malt enzymes for a robust profile, it was filtrated with quartz sand and then instilled into a bottle of crystal-pure French glass. Wax poured over mesh wire muzzled the cork: thus the hammer and brush.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“wearable tech, mortgage sales, robotics, credit monitoring, online payment, game streaming, dating apps, social content aggregators, predictive software, genome kits, health apps, fitness trackers, synthetic media, cloud computing, therapeutics – the full Bezos. Oh, they also own, like, a few hundred daily newspapers – local, national, foreign. And they just spun up a film and TV studio which sounds like a big expense but it’s really just a rounding error slash loss leader to open up markets like India, China, and Slovakia for delivering toasters and selling digital storage and all their other services. So, you ask yourself, what do all these ventures”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“A revulsion at the primordial sludge of DNA he’d somehow emerged from.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“At five foot four, she had to tilt her face up near his, close enough that she could feel his breath against her cheeks. She was flat-chested and tapered, gymnast-strong, and her power caught most everyone, Martin Quinn included, off guard.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“thought anymore in public, and you weren’t allowed to disagree with people, and you couldn’t use words you’d used your whole life, and even the new words got updated every three minutes. The whole thing was confusing as hell, like walking barefoot through a maze of mousetraps, and if he was honest it made him feel like one of those old-ass Eskimos the tribe just shoves off on an ice floe because they’re useless. Part of him deep down suspected that was the whole point. To show him that his time was over. When the world shifted this far upside”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“You get old faster’n you can believe.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“Oh, man,” Joey said, “those poor fuckers.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf

“I wasn’t even sure I wanted to join the stupid sorority anyways. I just wanted to prove I could get in. That I could be asked in. I think … I think I just wanted to prove I could belong somewhere. That I could be an ordinary person. But I wanted to be the one…” “To make the choice.” “Yeah.” Her nervous drumming stopped. “Pathetic, right?” “No.” It took a lot for her to force the question to the surface: “Why not?” “Because it’s brave,” he said. “Rushing a sorority?” “No.” Joey was waiting, not patiently. He tried to figure out the words but they all sounded wrong. He remembered pulling over on that dusty Texas road and vomiting the bile out of him. He said, “To risk getting hurt in a way you don’t know how to defend against.” A pause. “Yet.” The faintest upward tug at her lips. She blinked a few times, wiped at her cheeks. “Could you get me a glass of orange juice?”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Lone Wolf