The Boy from Reactor 4 Quotes

“Remember what the hare said to the hen when he opened the barn door.” She raised her eyebrows. “What’s that?” “With foxes, we must play the fox.”
― Orest Stelmach, The Boy from Reactor 4

“The day I stop scaring you is the day you should leave me.”
― Orest Stelmach, The Boy from Reactor 4

“When she got her job on Wall Street, she stopped practicing her religion, which is to say she changed her affiliation to the greenback.”
― Orest Stelmach, The Boy from Reactor 4

“Because the greatest opportunities present themselves when all hope is lost.”
― Orest Stelmach, The Boy from Reactor 4

“Ziker’s Peoples of the Tundra, Ian Halliday’s Native Peoples”
― Orest Stelmach, The Boy from Reactor 4

“garrote out of his pocket. The three of them”
― Orest Stelmach, The Boy from Reactor 4

“She could have been a former lingerie model or a ravenous zombie from a postapocalyptic world.”
― Orest Stelmach, The Boy from Reactor 4

“May I ask you a question?” “Of course.” “If I offered you ten million dollars or a clear conscience, which would you take?” He considered the question. “Both,” Victor said. “I am a thief.”
― Orest Stelmach, The Boy from Reactor 4

“A sliver of a man stood on a corner beside a charcoal garage door, a plume of smoke twisting from his hand. He looked more like a shadow than a person, the offspring of Marlene Dietrich and Checkpoint Charlie, born with a genetic predisposition to survive in the catacombs.”
― Orest Stelmach, The Boy from Reactor 4

“The most dangerous people in the world weren’t the extremists, Nadia thought; they were the highly educated and super-intelligent extremists.”
― Orest Stelmach, The Boy from Reactor 4