Wastelands 2 Quotes

“They almost killed me.” “I guess they didn’t.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

“remember that you can retain your humanity if you continue to be humane.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

“The jeep, the symbolic, faithful letter carrier, the flag patch… they recalled comfort, innocence, cooperation, an easy life that allowed millions of men and women to relax, to smile or argue as they chose, to be tolerant with one another—and to hope to be better people with the passage of time.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

“Long since then he’d come to realize that his persistent optimism had to be a form of hysterical insanity. Hell, everybody’s crazy, these days. Yes, he answered himself. But paranoia and depression are adaptive, now. Idealism is only stupid.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

“I also know they might be nothing more than a man hungry for meanings inventing them where they don’t exist. Arguably, all meanings are invented anyway; and since I have no one to please but myself, and no one to read this who will care, except perhaps one, then I may write as I please, and think as I please, and reread this whenever I can bear it.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

“we will protest the waste of international resources in any way necessary to make it clear that we are serious about our goal, and ensure that we eliminate the rising and dangerous power of mass delusion in the hands of the under-informed.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

“Hide in disgusting places, because no one will want to look there, even if they know they should.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

“Remember. This is one of the verbs they will try to remove from your brain. Remember. If you cannot remember, they can tell you anything about the past—your own or the world’s—and you will not be able to know if they are telling the truth.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

“Their house has five bedrooms and the basement isn’t a basement, it’s a living room, because the house is kind of on a little hill, and although the front of the basement is underground, you can walk right out the back.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

“I’m going to put logic and fantasy together and hope to arrive at the truth.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

“That’s one I wanted to build. After I became an architect.” His green eyes swam with desperation and sorrow because now, that was an impossible dream.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

“and so it was that the cockroach men became the rulers of the earth.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

“It will not be like the 1960s. There is no free love, just fear, fear, fear.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse