Plague Quotes

“You could even break it down by year and see the evolution of America that way. It, like America, became more and more diverse. Now, however, it’s a different story. They’re teaching extremely basic skills, things that children that age should already know. And the characters are more extravagant but lacking in depth. It’s a reflection of ourselves with all this celebrity worship and a disdain for all things intellectual. I think Sesame Street will predict the fall of our nation much better than any media outlet. They’ll begin to have characters, as they’re starting to now, that are homeless, or socialists, or felons. Then they’ll give up and begin teaching children just enough to get by. How to be manual laborers or soldiers or whatever else the dominant profession of a declining society will be.”
― Victor Methos, Plague

“Do you know there’s a type of moth that only lives for twenty-four hours? It’s born without a mouth so it doesn’t eat. It does have a full digestive system and could produce excrement if it could eat. It just doesn’t have a mouth. Sometimes nature is random and cruel.”
― Victor Methos, Plague

“Sam had seen cases of denial so extreme that people had come to the hospital to pick their loved ones up to go home days after they had been informed they had passed away. The mind had many barriers to protect it from harm, and most of them occurred without the conscious part of ourselves even being aware of them.”
― Victor Methos, Plague

“Impulsivity’s the kingdom of the young and I’m not young anymore. We have to be utilitarian in this; the greatest good”
― Victor Methos, Plague

“think mammals are perfectly capable of adapting to different environments but they still die out. I think the problem is that their behavior advances to a point that they’re no longer receptive to what’s happening in their environment. They lose their intuition, their imagination, and begin to rely solely on reason. When that happens, they don’t respond to their environment anymore. They die.”
― Victor Methos, Plague

“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.   -Gore Vidal       CHAPTER 1     It began with a cough. Michael”
― Victor Methos, Plague

“Nature’s a forest of horrors. I don’t need to know what new way it devised to kill me.”
― Victor Methos, Plague

“popped a handful of pills, washing them down with a bottle of water. It was Yolanda. The officers and BH team were standing not twenty feet away from her and didn’t recognize her. They were laughing and joking. “I need to get there, now. This isn’t a joke.”
― Victor Methos, Plague