The Academy Quotes

“Boom Boom, for instance, was an excellent outside-the-box thinker. Asa thought Boom Boom was a great strategist, and brilliant. The problem with Boom Boom is that he’s kind of a creep. He had attracted the Academy’s scouts when he built a bomb and blew up a bank. The feat had required certain mental abilities, but it also showed a deficit in others. Anyone who commits an act like that has issues with mentally putting themselves in other people’s shoes. Boom Boom had also killed his childhood dog. Knowing these things made Asa uncomfortable around his former teammate.”
― Chad Leito, The Academy: Book 3

“Stridor checked the clip, turned the safety off, and cocked the gun.               “I SAID NO!” Asa yelled. He was no longer concerned that Multipliers out in the forest might hear him.               “You’re right,” Stridor said. He put the gun down on his backpack. “I should take his clothes off before I kill him. We don’t want blood on that t-shirt.”
― Chad Leito, The Academy: Book 3

“Even before I was mutated I could smell Salvaserum. It’s one of the most distinct smells I’ve ever encountered.”               “It smells like someone cooked a dead rat in rotting cheese.”               Stridor stopped sniffing and regarded Asa. “I think that’s an apt description.”
― Chad Leito, The Academy: Book 3

“I think that, paradoxically, one of the things that stops it from being noticed is how out of the ordinary it is. If a hacker came to some official with a suspicion that he had unearthed a sex trafficking organization, that might be listened to. That happens. But when someone tells an official that they found an organization that mutates teenagers and animals and is releasing a disease into the world’s water supply, that’s not listened to; the Academy looks like a hoax, and that helps to conceal it. Also, if I were to take a guess, I’d assume that these elite hackers aren’t all people who have good standing with the world governments. There’s another option, too. Maybe the Academy threatens them if they’re found. Or maybe some Multipliers take care of them if they are trying to reveal the Academy. The Multipliers don’t want the Academy revealed as much as anyone. If that happens, the Wolf Flu stops killing people and the population that they are going to fight against stops decreasing.”
― Chad Leito, The Academy: Book 3

“Personally, I’m not going to test Gene Gill’s altruism by turning up after he suspects that I killed the Boss.”
― Chad Leito, The Academy: Book 3

“Peterson’s Golden Retriever. Before the Wolf Flu, it had been a show dog. The dog’s coat was a deep orange, highlighted with golden, metallic, shiny waves. After the Wolf Flu, Asa had mistaken the dog for a coyote. The creature had somehow lost all of its hair—Asa suspected that some cruel kid might have burned it off, or perhaps the dog had succumbed to a disease. The dog’s skin was grey and ashy. It had grown skinny and it had lost its left eye. Once Asa had seen the post-Wolf Flu dog trotting through the neighborhood with something bloody in its mouth—about a dozen foot-long strands of hair had been hanging from the animal’s closed jaws. To Asa it had looked like some woman’s hair.”
― Chad Leito, The Academy: Book 3

“For example, even if a human hasn’t ever been in contact with a snake, and doesn’t know that snakes can be venomous, the human will have an innate fear of slithering, hissing, scale-covered creatures on the ground. Likewise, most humans will fear heights even if they are properly strapped into a harness, or mutated to have wings.”
― Chad Leito, The Academy: Book 3

“Asa found that, because of his reputation as a crazed murderer, people often stared at him while he exercised. He preferred to be alone.”
― Chad Leito, The Academy: Book 3