Fire in Winter Quotes

“It’s a psychological phenomenon common in governments, business organizations, and political parties; a culture of conformity that discourages independent thinking and disagreement. Anyone who challenges the consensus of the greater body, regardless of how valid that challenge might be, is considered disloyal. This produces deviant outcomes. People thinking they are always right, everyone else is wrong, and their logic is unassailable,”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“It is. It’s a psychological phenomenon common in governments, business organizations, and political parties; a culture of conformity that discourages independent thinking and disagreement. Anyone who challenges the consensus of the greater body, regardless of how valid that challenge might be, is considered disloyal. This produces deviant outcomes. People thinking they are always right, everyone else is wrong, and their logic is unassailable, no matter how divorced from reality it might be.”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“He lives in North Carolina (for now) with his wife, son, two vicious attack dogs, and a cat that is scarcely aware of his existence.”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“having a home is worth working for, worth fighting for, and if necessary, worth dying for.”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“Reason and sensibility are precious commodities, and in short supply. And”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“There’s a big push right now to clear the infected out of Kansas. Central”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“People don’t always aim so well when they are enthusiastically trying to kill one another. If”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“Welcome to Blackmire, my friend. May God have mercy on your soul.”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“kidnapping people, raping them, and selling them into a life of brutalization, sexual exploitation, and hopelessness, is hands down the worst sin a human being can commit. So”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“Ounces equal pounds, pounds equal pain.”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“thought about protocol, and rules, and the risks people take, never believing they will be the ones to fall. I”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“In my experience, the wealthier the clientele, the worse they tended to treat the hired help. I”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“when two evenly matched opponents engage in combat, victory and defeat hinges upon who makes the first mistake. And”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“You won’t win by counting all the ways you can lose. You’ve”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“GARRETT DRAGONFLY TWO GRAVES”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“how excited people get in the wake of physical violence, and sometimes that excitement can result in additional altercations. I”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“It’s the death of a thousand cuts.”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“It’s what people want to believe, so they believe it. And”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“Most people stopped at the refugee camps in Topeka and Wichita,” he”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“torture doesn’t always yield the best information. People will say anything to make the pain stop.”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“But in truth, the only person looking for you is you. Each person, each individual, owns responsibility for his or her life and safety.”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“By the time the good folks at Quantico got their hands on me, I was already an old hand at stalking, and I could out-shoot half the instructors. Naturally, I soon became the subject of much envy”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“among my fellow sniper candidates. Even the instructors, who were supposed to be neutral third parties, had a bit of a love-hate relationship with me. It didn’t help that on my last stalk I got within a hundred yards of the observation post before firing my two shots and reading the card. One of the instructors had a walker—the living kind, mind you, not one of the undead—running around in circles, insistently telling him ‘sniper at your feet’ and getting negatives until he was fuming, spitting mad. The poor guy almost fell off his stool when I stood up.”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter

“Most people kept to themselves, content with their computers, iPads, cellphones and the filtered, touch-free cybersphere that had replaced the simple arts of introduction and conversation. No one wanted to talk to you, and you were expected to not want to talk to them. At least not outside the social constructs set aside for such purposes.”
― James N. Cook, Fire in Winter