Captives Quotes

“she awoke from a feeling so vivid that she felt cheated by the flimsiness of the real world.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Captives

“After the mountains, the road passed along an endless stretch of dead orchards, the trees' bare brown branches uplifted in a silent curse to the dry, hot skies.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Captives

“That was the turning point. The attackers never broke,”
― Edward W. Robertson, Captives

“Overgrown palms and magnolias shuffled in a breeze that didn't seem to exist beyond their leaves.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Captives

“They said love made you a better person, but experience proved that to be a big fat lie. Love only made you better for the lone individual lucky enough for you to be in love with. For everyone else, it made you worse. Fearful. Illogical. Dangerous. Willing to fight. And to go to war.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Captives

“At this point, cities were essentially like the corpse of a sperm whale that's fallen to the bottom of the lightless ocean. The only people who stayed were the human equivalent of the abyssal crabs who feasted on fetid blubber.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Captives

“he called an audible”
― Edward W. Robertson, Captives

“impaled by a branch and was in shock. Fully expecting”
― Edward W. Robertson, Captives