Vortex Quotes

“If I met a horse that looked like you, I’d find that horse attractive.”
― S.J. Kincaid, Vortex

“That's lucky?" Tom repeated bitterly. "Lucky now means 'worst case scenario ever,' then. That's great. Good to know."

"Sir," Blackburn corrected.

"You outrank me. You shouldn't call me 'sir.'"

"Raines, you'll address me as 'sir' or I will stick you back down in that cell next to the census device until 'sir' is the only word you remember."

Tom bristled. He'd never hated someone so much. "Sir, yes, sir. I'll use 'sir,' sir. Is that all, sir?"

"Oh, I'd say that's all. Get into the simulation with the others." Blackburn jabbed at his forearm keyboard. "It irritates me just looking at you."

Back at you, Tom thought.”
― S.J. Kincaid, Vortex

“Your head could fit in the muzzle of this thing," Vik said, awestruck. "Seriously. Come on and let's see."

"I'm not sticking my head in a cannon thing. Stick your own head in."

"I have highly temperamental hair. It'll get nestlike. You don't care when your hair gets nestlike, Tom. You can't possibly.”
― S.J. Kincaid, Vortex

“Are you guys seriously messing around with real weapons?" she exclaimed. "It's like you want Darwin Awards!"

Tom flushed, and set his gun back on its hook. "It's not like we were going to start a dynastic war or something."

"Yeah," Vik said guiltily, returning his own weapon.”
― S.J. Kincaid, Vortex

“People kill over money and power and love, but no one kills over gnomes.”
― S.J. Kincaid, Vortex

“Tom finally understood why his father saw humanity as worthless. It was hard to see much fundamental value in anything when the bad guys always won.
Maybe this was simply what it was like to grow up.”
― S.J. Kincaid, Vortex

“And I want you to know something: Medusa, if I met a horse that looked like you, I’d find that horse attractive.”
She stared at him.
“And I’d be worried,” Tom added quickly, seeing her confusion. “See, it’s a horse. See? I mean, I’d really be, like, ‘uh-oh’ and ‘this sucks,’ if it looked like you because I’d be into that horse. Which is messed up, due to the horse thing. But it would solely be because it resembled you. You know what I mean?”
She backed away from him slowly. “I think I really need to leave now.”
― S.J. Kincaid, Vortex

“Son, you are now a man,’ then he gave me a scented candle and told me how babies are made.”
― S.J. Kincaid, Vortex

“Ow, that hurts! It hurts like being in Connecticut!”
― S.J. Kincaid, Vortex

“If there was a horse and the horse looked like you, I would find that horse attractive.”
― S.J. Kincaid, Vortex

“People kill over money and power and love, but no one kills over gnomes.”
― S.J. Kincaid, Vortex