Fade Quotes

“The more time he spent in the Middle East, the more certain he became that the region was irreparably broken. How could these people learn to anchor themselves in a modern world never dreamed of by the ancient prophet they believed so deeply in? It was a psychological and moral conflict that left the people here both desiring and shunning the things progress could bring them.”
― Kyle Mills, Fade

“Can we talk for a minute?"
He ignored her question, instead concentrating on staying away from the gun mounts while taping off the headlights.
"Fade?"
"Have you ever had a fun conversation that started with 'can we talk for a minute?”
― Kyle Mills, Fade

“Look," he said finally, "I don't mean to nitpick here, but I have a gun and you don't.”
― Kyle Mills, Fade

“couldn’t get into their heads—you would never defeat them. Sending clueless general after clueless general to try to control situations and people they couldn’t even talk to was absurd. Trying to solve Arab problems with American solutions had a long and illustrious history of failure that no one seemed to pay any attention to. And so the machine, no matter how broken, ground on.”
― Kyle Mills, Fade

“Empathy, it turned out, was the only weapon worth wielding here and the only one the Americans simply didn’t have the know-how to build. If you couldn’t understand your enemy—if you”
― Kyle Mills, Fade

“was really no solution—only pointless attempts to delay the inevitable. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, people were no different than they had been thousands of years ago, when humanity had been a twitchy and mean-spirited species barely enlightened enough to be trusted with swords and spears. How did anyone fool themselves into thinking that stability could be maintained in a time when individuals had the power to, in minutes, destroy what it took centuries to build?”
― Kyle Mills, Fade

“It was clear to him now that the problems that plagued the world, and that were so glaring in this part of it, were ingrained to the point that there”
― Kyle Mills, Fade

“from Elise Egan.”
― Kyle Mills, Fade