First Light Quotes

“It’s the doom of our species that psychopaths always want to be in charge.”
― Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light

“because it’s easier to pay our taxes than to risk our livelihoods by trying to change the system.”
― Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light

“We hold each other and I’m shaking, because I’m thinking how close I came to losing her. If she’d been closer to ground zero in San Diego, she’d be dead now. So many people are dead, because for decades citizens like me and my dad, my uncle, and Lissa’s parents—good people—quietly financed war after war because it’s easier to pay our taxes than to risk our livelihoods by trying to change the system. Our silence let wealth accumulate in the hands of people like Thelma Sheridan, people who came to believe they could buy absolutely anything, even innocence.”
― Linda Nagata, First Light

“Everybody’s got a place in the world, their one best role. Most people spend their whole life trying to figure out what that is,”
― Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light

“it’s better for him if we’re blown out of the sky. That way we can’t testify against him.”
― Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light

“Is that a robo-rat?”
― Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light

“The most complex programs in existence are used for consumer analysis. They’re everywhere, watching and analyzing every aspect of our lives. The amount of data gathered on any one of us is mind-boggling—but”
― Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light

“Command might prefer titanium soldiers with replaceable parts.”
― Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light

“If any cunt hunter comes for me, Grandmother says to kill him.”
― Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light