The Gemini Effect Quotes

“To those nations and people who wish us ill, I issue a simple warning. The United States has been wounded this morning. That is a fact. This is also a fact: although wounded, we are not weakened. You may delight in the news that we’ve suffered a terrible loss, but do not let our misfortune provide you the sudden courage to decide that now is the time to move against us. We are a peaceful people, a peaceful nation, but our sword is out of the sheath this day, and can be swung in many directions with an unforgiving, fearful vengeance. Stand fast.” No president had ever been so”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“There’s something in the city,” she’d said. “Some things.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“Few people would admit it, but the guy with the donkey from Colombia was probably the most successful drug dealer on the planet.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“Allison had learned over the years that hope, like wishing, was also a sign of poor planning.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“Loose lips sink ships.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“The report says it’s biologic calcification.” “In English, General.” “It’s bone, sir.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“It could not be wielded by emotions. It had to be wielded by reason.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“Turning the other cheek had been tried for decades, and it had failed. The enemies lurking in the shadows had taken the time provided them by well-intentioned—yet incredibly naïve—politicians and used it to prepare. To plan. And finally, to act. Thousands had died in the war on terrorism. America had grown different. Harder, not happier.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“Quiet as a tomb.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“Inertia could be a real bitch when it came to flesh and bone.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“wishing was nothing more than an excuse for poor planning.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“An end of things. Transformation. Then, a beginning of things.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“those who wish us ill need to know now is not the time to decide to start screwing with Uncle Sam.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“As Josh watched her leave, he imagined he could peer beyond Carolyn’s biosuit and spy the gorgeous form within, her hips swaying with each stride of her deeply tanned legs, brunette hair bouncing about her bare shoulders, and her—”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“Carolyn was pretty sure Josh’s dream woman was more of a blond, busty ex-NFL cheerleader than a self-described brainiac like herself, but in another time, in another place, she knew she could be attracted to a man like Josh. He was young, smart, and good-looking, but she wasn’t about to jeopardize her work by allowing herself to become involved in some sort of silly office romance. She, and Josh, too, for that matter, needed to stay focused. Lives depended on the work they were doing. Many lives. But she wasn’t so cold as to avoid some innocent flirting.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“a decision made in anger was almost always unwarranted, and sometimes just flat wrong.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“September 10, 2001,”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“A large Rottweiler tied to a fencepost at the far end of the salvage yard pricked its ears up and growled, but only for a second. The sound, the terrible screeching, caused the dog to cower against the yard’s security fence and whimper like a scared pup. Beneath the car, the rat lay on its back, legs kicking furiously, clawing at the air, a high-pitched squeal escaping its open maw, much too loud to be produced by its tiny lungs. Its head lolled from side to side and its tongue flapped about like a meaty whip. Beneath the rat’s coarse hair, bones were snapping, rearranging, fusing. Muscles were flexing, ripping, building. Cells ruptured and then re-formed. DNA strands resequenced, and resequenced again. Something was being born, at the same time something else was dying.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“wishing was nothing more than an excuse for poor planning. The past is the past, and nothing can change it. The future is what one makes it. And the present—today—is the most important of all.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“If the next thing he heard was that a truck full of teddy bears had come to life in San Francisco and had started eating people with a little sourdough bread on the side, he wouldn’t be surprised one little bit.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“decision made in anger was almost always unwarranted, and sometimes just flat wrong.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“Mother Nature was funny that way. Complex. Unpredictable. And unforgiving as hell if you fucked around with her.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“the guy with the donkey from Colombia was probably the most successful drug dealer on the planet.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“Nature had been fucked with. And Mother was pissed.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“In layman’s terms, that meant Fuck it. Kill everything.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect

“The shaggy, one-eyed mullahs crawling around in caves on the other side of the world could be quite creative at times, especially when it came to killing innocent people.”
― Chuck Grossart, The Gemini Effect