Mr. Whisper Quotes

“Sloan loved night dives. She found them soothing—even though one hundred percent of the scary things you’d find in the water during the day were still there in the middle of the night.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mr. Whisper

“Expect people to be lazy and stupid,”
― Andrew Mayne, Mr. Whisper

“Sitting on the table was a thirty-two-ounce plastic cup with what Sloan suspected was a partially alcoholic beverage.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mr. Whisper

“It’s a title of a Jack London novel,” Theo replied. “It’s about a man trapped inside a straitjacket who discovers astral projection and explores time and space while locked up in solitary confinement.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mr. Whisper

“They get it wrong when we say we have either a flight or fight instinct, thought Sloan. The most basic one—at least the one she saw so commonly in the depths of the oceans—was freeze. Do nothing. Wait for danger to pass.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mr. Whisper

“often had so much trouble distinguishing the two that they could get into arguments with themselves,”
― Andrew Mayne, Mr. Whisper

“the research into auditory verbal hallucinations, where people began to struggle differentiating between the sound of their voice and their own thoughts. Schizophrenics”
― Andrew Mayne, Mr. Whisper

“yurts,”
― Andrew Mayne, Mr. Whisper

“Here’s the thing the conspiracy theorists don’t understand. There’s not one big giant conspiracy.” He took a sip of his beer and continued. “Just hundreds of tiny ones.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mr. Whisper

“couldn’t get past the fact that while Jack London was writing it, Harry Houdini was carrying on an affair with his wife,” said”
― Andrew Mayne, Mr. Whisper

“Theo. I only make people who annoy me call me ‘Doctor’—which generally only includes administrators with doctorates of education.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mr. Whisper

“I learned that the things you covet are often burdens for those who possess them,” he”
― Andrew Mayne, Mr. Whisper

“They didn’t throw around jobs to ex–military personnel like traditional contractors did, and this made a lot of people unhappy. Some felt there was an unspoken quid pro quo. If you get the contracts, then you needed to also create work for the people who made it happen.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mr. Whisper

“We all have some degree of disassociation with the voice in our head. It’s why we call ourselves stupid out loud or criticize ourselves mentally. If you think about it, who are we talking to? We already know we screwed up. It’s like we’re pretending there’s another person telling us this in order to reinforce it.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mr. Whisper