The Armageddon Conspiracy Quotes

“Nothing was scarier than the fact that the person who was your best friend, your soul mate, could become unrecognisable to you in the blink of an eye. With a few words, they could kill your happiness.”
― Mike Hockney, The Armageddon Conspiracy

“That’s right, Lucy, that’s right,’ he said, overwhelmed by joy. ‘There’s infinite hope, infinite hope, all the hope in the world. Even
for us.”
― Mike Hockney, The Armageddon Conspiracy

“That’s right, Lucy, that’s right,’ he said, overwhelmed by joy. ‘There’s infinite hope, infinite hope, all the hope in the world. Even for us.”
― Mike Hockney, The Armageddon Conspiracy

“There was so much regret in his eyes, self-disgust, sorrow. But there was love there too, love like she'd never seen before. All consuming, indestructible, aching.”
― Mike Hockney, The Armageddon Conspiracy

“Lucy shook her head. ‘How can you say that love’s a crime?’
‘Love was Satan’s deadliest gift to mankind. When Pandora opened her box, the first and greatest evil to fly out was love.’
‘I don’t understand.’
‘Love is the glue that keeps souls attached to this world, stuck in this hell. It mires us in misery. Love glitters and seduces. No one would endure one moment of this hell if they felt nothing but the pain. It’s the love that allows people to bear it. Love traps us, keeps us in the snares of the material world, this false world of the false god. Yet you, better than anyone, know that the underside of love is pain, the worst pain of all.’
Lucy looked away. Morson, in his mad way, was right. Love is poison. A beautiful poison, but poison all the same. The first taste might be paradise, but what followed was hell.”
― Mike Hockney, The Armageddon Conspiracy

“Can one instant of ecstasy redeem a life of despair? Maybe only an artist could live that kind of life. Can beauty exist in heaven where nothing ever changes, where nothing dies or grows old, where there’s no cycle of death and rebirth, no seasons of growth and decay? How can there be beauty when everything is beautiful? Maybe beauty, true beauty, exists only when it’s perishable, already containing the seeds of ugliness.”
― Mike Hockney, The Armageddon Conspiracy

“Life had sickened her often enough, but it could still offer breathtaking moments. Now and again, something transcended the misery, like that lone red rose in the graveyard in the ruined abbey. Its smell, its texture. So infinitely beautiful. Was that rose really one of the Devil’s snares, one of his tricks for keeping souls imprisoned in this world?”
― Mike Hockney, The Armageddon Conspiracy

“Life was fleeing from him. She could practically see his memories switching off one by one. With each of those vanishing thoughts, parts of her were dying too. They
say we live in the memories of those who know us, but that means we die too when those memories perish”
― Mike Hockney, The Armageddon Conspiracy

“Sometimes she thought love was the worst thing in the world. What no one told you was that it was simply a seductive wrapping for pain – the worst pain
of all because you never expected to find it beneath something so beautiful”
― Mike Hockney, The Armageddon Conspiracy