2054 Quotes

“You don’t really buy into that, do you? People talk about the divide in this country as though we were standing on opposite sides of a chasm. When the reality is we’re all standing over the chasm, as if on a bridge. You’re never going to get everyone to cross to one side or the other. Some people can’t accept that. If they can’t get everyone to their side, they’d rather blow up the bridge. Then there’s nothing. Just a void we plunge into.”
― Elliot Ackerman, 2054: A Novel

“He grasped a full trash bag he’d staged at the door, filled with a couple of old blankets. He would intercept Hendrickson in the corridor while taking his trash to the chute. Espionage—Mohammad had long ago concluded—and its attendant tradecraft, was often a very childish business, filled with silly ploys like this one. He waited, his hand on the doorknob, his ear pressed to the jamb, listening for the elevator’s chime.”
― Elliot Ackerman, 2054: A Novel

“Countries, he knew, were like lovers; their scorn inspired devotion as often as it inspired resentment.”
― Elliot Ackerman, 2054: A Novel

“They stood on the sidelines, as irrelevant as a referee trying to call a game with no rules.”
― Elliot Ackerman, 2054: A Novel

“The news anchor noted that only about half of the troops mobilized under the Insurrection Act had mustered for duty. Where the other half were, no one knew. “It seems tens of thousands of US troops have gone AWOL.”
― Elliot Ackerman, 2054: A Novel

“America had increasingly come to feel to Julia less like a nation and more like a suicide pact.”
― Elliot Ackerman, 2054: A Novel

“03:17 March 05, 2051 (GMT-5) IP Address: 78.878.826.69”
― Elliot Ackerman, 2054: A Novel