The Bracken Anthology Quotes

“The normalcy bias can kill you.”
― Matthew Bracken, The Bracken Anthology

“If somebody else is feeding you—even if you entered the community or the building of your own free will, even if all the doors and gates are currently open or unlocked—you may already be living in your future prison. All it takes is a change in management to turn your Holiday Inn into San Quentin.”
― Matthew Bracken, The Bracken Anthology

“Nonetheless, America has left you feeling like an unwanted cat or dog tossed out of the family SUV at a distant highway rest stop.”
― Matthew Bracken, The Bracken Anthology

“Creatures that are able to flee starvation will do so.”
― Matthew Bracken, The Bracken Anthology

“The moral of the story: The guy who is starving you may sincerely be trying to feed you, but his best efforts might not be enough. In the end, if you are penned in, you can be killed by simple starvation and neglect, requiring no directly malign intention by your captors. Starvation just happens naturally when insufficient food is coming”
― Matthew Bracken, The Bracken Anthology

“This is a paradoxical case where the normally presumed “safety in numbers” is a deadly betrayer instead of a savior. Given a choice, going it alone beats The Buffalo Jump every time, but it’s very hard to bolt from the herd.”
― Matthew Bracken, The Bracken Anthology

“die in place or undertake a desperate swim to greener pastures on other islands beckoning in the distance.   The moral of the story: There doesn't need to be a pig trapper or a turkey farmer in the equation to cause a mass die-off event; nature can do it all on her own. And nature doesn't care about your schedule, or your personal problems.”
― Matthew Bracken, The Bracken Anthology

“Read about the then-Greek city of Smyrna in 1922 to see a human Buffalo Jump in action.”
― Matthew Bracken, The Bracken Anthology