Brilliance Quotes

“The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“She’d always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met. It was just that she had the honesty of someone with nothing to prove.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“It was like meeting someone exceptional while you were married: the yank of possibility, the realization that here was another path your life could have taken.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“Data. That’s what matters. That’s what tells us something. But people want to see pictures. Supernova in vivid color. Even though scientifically it’s useless.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“Maybe the world would burn. But if truth was all it took to start the fire, maybe it needed to.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“No matter how smoothly you tossed a stone into water, there were always ripples. Alongside”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“There was a rumor—a joke? Hard to tell at the DAR—that the fluorescent bulbs were the result of a multimillion-dollar program specially engineered to offer the most hopeless light possible. Cooper didn’t know about that, but they did make everyone look two weeks dead.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“No matter how smoothly you tossed a stone into water, there were always ripples.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“And difference, as he learned that day, inspired a particular kind of savagery.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“Around here, I’m pretty sure ‘us’ means Texans, and ‘them’ means the other seven billion on the planet.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“She’d always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“That was the lure of wealth, he'd discovered: a throaty whisper in your ear that you were special, that it was all - this wine, this woman, this world - for you. That it in some way existed only so that you might partake of it.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“NO TRESPASSING and SOLICITORS WARMLY GREETED WITH GUNFIRE signs,”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“forward to it, and Cooper, coatless and chilly in the desert evening, was thinking that the radio man was an asshole. He’d chased Vasquez for nine days now. Someone had warned the programmer just before Cooper got to the Boston walk-up, a brick rectangle where the only light had been a window onto an airshaft and the glowing red eyes of power indicators on computers and routers and surge protectors. The desk chair had been against the far wall as if someone had leaped out of it, and steam still rose from an abandoned bowl of ramen. Vasquez had run, and”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“The last twelve hours had been tense, everyone seeing the Mexican border looming large, and beyond it, the wide world into which someone like Vasquez could vanish. But with each move the abnorm made, Cooper got better at predicting the next. Like peeling away layers of tissue paper to reveal the object beneath, a vague form began to resolve into the pattern that defined his target.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“Possible ID, leather jacket.” In his ear, the team confirmed the sighting. On the bench, Luisa set down her salad and put a hand on her purse. Vasquez turned to face the guy, his eyes a question. The man in the leather jacket slipped his hand into his right front pocket.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“But not a flag worshipper. He cared about the principles, not the symbol.” “That’s what patriotism means. The others are just fetishists.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“much of anything. But put a series together and patterns emerged. Some were obvious: haircuts, weight gained or lost, fashion trends. Others required”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“Mom and Dad chatting around mouthfuls of steak while Junior used the scraps of his hamburger to buttress the walls of Fort French Fry.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“fluorescent bulbs were the result of a multimillion-dollar program specially engineered to offer the most hopeless light possible.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“A bar like this anywhere else, there would be beer signs. You know, the old-school logos, the Clydesdales. And even the new beers, they make signs that consciously reflect the ones that came before. Because that’s the way it’s done. You brew a beer, you make a sign for it. It’s like a pool table in a bar, even though no one really knows how to play pool anymore. Our grandparents shot pool; we get drunk and whack at the balls with warped sticks. No one thinks about it, but it’s nostalgia. It’s a sense of the past, of the way things are done.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“hotels and trinket shops and storefront museums and all”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“Cooper had been at a scene once where a car had collided with an agent and pinned him against a metal barrier, shattering everything from the ribs down, severing both legs at midthigh. Massive physical damage, unsurvivable. What had haunted him most, though, was that the man was calm. He didn't scream, didn't seem to feel any pain. Some wounds were too enormous to feel.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“The lobby was at once attractive and bleak, a place meant to impress without creating the desire to linger.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

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― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“He hated clocks that ticked; every click a moment gone. Couldn’t imagine sleeping in a room with one, drifting into unconsciousness to the sound of life slipping away.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“He seemed the kind of guy who ran through his whole life heading for something more important.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“Money at that level was not something that could be counted; it was dynamic, a living thing that swelled and shrank and consumed the money of others, companies buying companies buying companies for fifty iterations.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance