The Abduction Quotes

“she needed someone to hold her, but she couldn’t bring herself to ask her husband, not after what she had done to him.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Life is not random. There are no coincidences. Human beings are more than mere molecules bouncing around life without reason. We bounce around life with a purpose. We are meant to bounce off specific other human beings during our lives, other human beings who will change the content and course of our lives.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“mean and ruthless. But she was still a mother. And the most dangerous creature on earth is a mother whose child has been threatened, insulted, harassed, or bullied.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“The sheriff”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“And the most dangerous creature on earth is a mother whose child has been threatened, insulted, harassed, or bullied.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Life is not random. There are no coincidences. Human beings are more than mere molecules bouncing around life without reason. We bounce around life with a purpose. We are meant to bounce off specific other human beings during our lives, other human beings who will change the content and course of our lives. We are meant to be exactly who we are.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“did anyone really believe in God anymore? In Satan? That there truly was a daily battle between good and evil waged within our souls and for our souls?”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“who want to dismantle the American military—because we are the last defense of America. We cannot allow that to happen. I will not allow that to happen. Not while I can still pull the trigger.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Each of us—soldiers in the United States Army—took a solemn oath to defend this nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And defend it we did—the Cold War is over, the Evil Empire is no more, Communism is defeated.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“We were ordered to war but not allowed to win the war. We were ordered to kill but court-martialed for killing. We were ordered to defeat Communism in Southeast Asia only to see Communism win at home.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Maybe when a man fights evil every day for so many years, he becomes evil. Maybe a man can’t be around that much hate without hating. I fought the hate. The major … the hate consumed him.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Ben had kept up with his son all this time. But his son had never returned his calls or come to visit, convinced that at his age he no longer needed a father. He was wrong.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Best years of my life. Hell, killing, drinking, and fucking—to an Okie from Henryetta, Vietnam wasn’t no war, it was a goddamned vacation.” He shook his head. “Politicians fucked up a pretty good war.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“We cannot live in a world that thinks it can fuck with America. Because once every piss-ant dictator, rebel, warlord, and terrorist thinks he can fuck with America, he will!”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Why didn’t women come with a freaking Error Message box?”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“He had downloaded his content and uninserted his floppy;”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“he simply wasn’t up to the manly task of driving a beautiful and complex woman like Elizabeth to brain-banging orgasms—as”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“even buying a user’s manual—The Female Orgasm—and learned to his dismay that writing twenty-five thousand lines of code was cake compared to bringing a full-grown female to orgasm.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“if he could take Elizabeth Brice to orgasm just once—just freaking once!—her indifferent attitude toward him would instantly morph into extreme love.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Something worth loving. But she could not love him as long as she hated herself. Her past wouldn’t allow it.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Gracie, ill-behaved cretins can thrash your user interface, frag your hardware, unplug your peripherals, uninstall your components—but dreams are proprietary technology.” “Huh?” “No one can take your dreams away.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Odds don’t apply to statistically unique occurrences.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“rage had taken its turn in the driver’s seat, and she had lashed out, first at John and then at Grace’s coach: “You pointed Grace out to the abductor? What kind of fucking idiot are you?”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Ben paid the $45 fare with a fifty and un-assed the vehicle.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Wally was so scared he felt a drop of pee drip out. He dropped his snow cone. The wild woman released him and ran toward the concession stand screaming her daughter’s name.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Elizabeth’s personality was a binary system—off and pissed off.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Lou, are you aware that the boot sequence required to produce an orgasm in a full-grown American female is more complex than the ignition sequence of a neutron bomb?”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“to pay for pussy, there wouldn’t be enough members left in the chamber of commerce to play gin.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“Thirty bucks a share makes me a billionaire—and that’s the ticket to happiness! A billion dollars buys me everything I ever wanted! … Maybe even love … Yeah, Lou, geeks need love, too.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction

“a nerd in a soldier’s world—now, finally, the world belonged to the nerds. Little Johnny Brice had found his place in this world.”
― Mark Gimenez, The Abduction