Reapers Quotes

“We start off thinking the whole world is about us," Lucy said. "Once you learn how little it cares about you, that's when you stop taking things personal.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“Just understand when you're not so you can snap back to reality if things get rough.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“She wanted to run to him. To be embraced. To be swept away from this life that, since birth, had been nothing but misery and pain. Unloved and so became unlovable. It was a joke, to be brought to exist and to have that existence be so mean, so far from virtue, like a crippled wasp or a rattler with a broken back. She wanted to run to him and cry like a child and be taken back to that place before life that was so like a world muffled and smothered by snow. But the joke ran deeper than that. She had been hammered by one thing after another until her core was as sharp and steely as the blade of his scythe. She couldn't let him take her any more than an avalanche could turn and flee back up the hill.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“We had people here. Where'd they go?" "Croatoan?”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“She hoped the yachts' owners had had a good time, because their money sure as shit hadn't saved them from the scythe.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“Dee was staring at her with such intense judgment it could have carved commandments into stone.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“Ash spit on the pier,”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“The air grew as sharp as sheared metal.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“She didn't much like when grown men sat around public places in the middle of the day. It typically meant one of two things. First, that they were unreliable or otherwise unemployable, which did bad things to the male self-esteem and worse things to its judgment.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“And so, when they reached the clearing, was the compound on the edge of the pond.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“In evaluating success, we don't care about the results.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“But as the limits of her investigation clarified like islands in the mist, Lucy saw just how little she had to work with.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“so long yet it was the first Lucy had taken note of him.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“She's got an accent like yours, right? Like honey on a biscuit?”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“City Hall, a regal place that looked like the shameless offspring of a ritzy hotel and a German castle.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“And it was a truism that the people most interested in power and authority were those least qualified to exercise them.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“metal railing. The turning boat”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers

“She would rather be right from now on than to stubbornly insist she'd never been wrong in the first place.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Reapers