This is How You Die Quotes

“Jeth had an unnatural talent for nuclear physics. Should that be a crime? He didn't like governments. Who did? How smart do you have to be before cynicism counts as villainy? And oh, God forbid you become independently wealthy enough to buy an island. Suddenly it's the Island of Dr. X, and the press can't refer to you without using the word "lair.”
― Tom Francis, This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death

“Well,' Lydia said, 'I guess Armageddon's back on.'
Eliot fought back a grin.
'You're smiling?', Lydia said. She looked at her car and at their house and down the empty street. 'That's totally inappropriate.”
― D.L.E. Roger, This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death

“Is there anything you want to do before we put our heads in plastic boxes for two days?'
I thought about this for a second, then held the side of her face and kissed her.
We both zipped up our suits just in time to see the reactor blow: a column of green radioactive fire, belching black smoke. Di squeezed my hand, our big boxy heads knocked clumsily together, and I tried to think of something romantic to say.
'Well, I guess that's why they all die of cancer.”
― Tom Francis, This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death

“Mort isn't my name, of course - I was creative director of mortality, and Dr. Jeth had us all go by titles.”
― Tom Francis, This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death

“Of course. I’m the vampire, right? Just keep Matthew occupied so Nurse Feratu can do her thing.”
― Ryan North, This Is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death