Cut Off Quotes

“One last question," Sprite said. "Who are you? Special Forces? CIA? Xenobiologist?" "I used to play a lot of World of Warcraft.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Cut Off

“but this thought rested on his mind like oil in water, unable to emulsify with the folds of his brain.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Cut Off

“She would be scraped to the core by the doubt of what she'd done.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Cut Off

“any fool could see life was nothing more than mobile piles of atoms that would sooner or later be consumed, rearranged, and incorporated into other piles of atoms. It was as simple and unsatisfying as that.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Cut Off

“She used to hate conflict and had associated this feeling with a churning stomach and the notion that things were in discord, breaking down, hopeless. You could patch things up later, glue the relationship back together, but the cracks remained. Sooner or later it broke for good. Now, though, it was a good feeling. It meant she'd acted. Headed off a threat. Conflict wasn't necessarily a portent of decay. Instead, it was a weapon to keep that decay away from you—if you had the balls to use”
― Edward W. Robertson, Cut Off

“She didn't like mistrusting people. Once upon a time, she'd believed in them, their inherent deep-down goodness. She'd treated it as both a fact and her guiding principle. Except for the rare sociopaths, people went bad by conditioning and environment, not by nature. If you got them away from the bad (poverty, sickness, lack of education) and guaranteed their basic wants would be met, that's when the true face of humanity emerged. People would work together, help one another, move forward as a community.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Cut Off

“More like if you stapled a chicken to a salmon and left them behind the fridge for a few days.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Cut Off

“spiked feet and the soft slap of his tentacles.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Cut Off

“Like an island materializing from the mist, a fourth way revealed itself.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Cut Off

“Tristan's hands trembled. "Not unless someone built the Maui Zoo when we weren't looking. And let the bears free.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Cut Off

“Please tell me this was a bear.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Cut Off

“It is because it is new and you do not like that which is new and surprises. But what you do not understand is that when you try a thing, it transforms from new into old.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Cut Off

“Doubt is not the fault. Doubt prunes the garden, brings order. Too often, you trim until your tree is dead.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Cut Off

“If you got them away from the bad (poverty, sickness, lack of education) and guaranteed their basic wants would be met, that's when the true face of humanity emerged. People would work together, help one another, move forward as a community.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Cut Off