Silent City Quotes

“If you can't hide, act confident. It would have to be one hell of an act.”
― G.R. Matthews, Silent City

“With air, you can struggle for a time. If you've trained in a Fish-Suit, you can struggle quite some time. However, without blood to your brain a few seconds is all it takes to become unconscious. Keep it up a few seconds more and that brief sleep can be extended by hours. A few more seconds and you can kill someone. It was all in the timing. Too little and they'd wake up whilst you were about your business. Too much and you'd kill them.”
― G.R. Matthews, Silent City

“The decent thing, the human thing, the ethical and moral thing to do, would be to put him out of his missery.
I left him.”
― G.R. Matthews, Silent City

“Me, a strap and a wrench. A mostly empty room and a door locked from the outside. I was trapped.”
― G.R. Matthews, Silent City

“From then on it was an easier process, though any crab shedding it's shell would look at me and think I had it easy. To be fair, I probably did, but if I caught that crab I'd boil it in water and eat it. Just to teach it to keep it's thoughts to itself.”
― G.R. Matthews, Silent City

“He and I were due a conversation which, I hoped, would be short and mostly communicated through body language. The universal method of conversation, my fist in his face, and he was going to do most of the listening.”
― G.R. Matthews, Silent City

“The subtle hum of the Oxyquid filters and motors ceased. A noise I'd long ago grown accustomed to, that had become just background and automatically ignored, stopped. It was unsettling in it's absence. The ocean is never truly silent but, at that moment, it was quieter than I ever wished it to be ever again. A quiet that made me doubt my sanity, made my eardrums hurt as they sought a sound, a faint tremor of noise to cup and hold ddear.”
― G.R. Matthews, Silent City

“I've never worried that a city would fall on me. It's not an event that I've lain awake worrying about, it's one of those fears you take as read. Sadly, a city was falling on me”
― G.R. Matthews, Silent City

“I've never worried that a city would fall on me. It's not an event that I've lain awake woorying about, it's one of those fears you take as read. Sadly, a city was falling on me.”
― G.R. Matthews, Silent City

“I knew my voice was getting louder. It's one of those things anger does to you, dulls your hearing and opens your throat. You have to shout just to hear your own words.”
― G.R. Matthews, Silent City

“Lad, the Fish-Suit was one of the Special Forces during Corp Wars. They don't give off much electromagnetic radiation and they are quiet to move about in, if the user chooses. They were the sabotage units. Not much use in a fight, but they'd go in and wreck the enemies capability before the battle even started. More civilians died to them than were collateral damage in any battle," he said. "There was a time when they weren't liked by any side.”
― G.R. Matthews, Silent City

“Being in that suit means you are pretty much on your own. When I was being trained, the first thing I had to know how to do was fix it. From the boots to the helmet, there is nothing, given access to the spare parts, I can't fix.”
― G.R. Matthews, Silent City

“The sea is never quiet. There is always noise. Close to the city, the deep hum of the generators and the clanking of people and machines churning out whatever it was they made.”
― G.R. Matthews, Silent City