The Wilds Quotes

“Sometimes the devil you know is just that—some asshole to steer clear of.”
― Donna Augustine, The Wilds

“I don’t know if you should be this happy. I’m not sure how much math they taught you at that place you came from, but although two is twice as much as one, in our equation, two still equals fucked.”
― Donna Augustine, The Wilds

“Those aren’t the rules. She cost us a meal,” Tank said. “You cost the group a meal, you go hungry. That’s the way it’s always been.”
I thought Dax was going to let them fight it out but then he spoke up. “I don’t want to feed her right now either but she’s a walking skeleton, and I need her alive. If there was one jerky, she’d get it before any of us.” He reached over and grabbed two dried meat sticks from Lucy and tried to hand me one.
“I’m fine. I don’t need it,” I said, looking at Tank.
Dax grabbed my hand and shoved the jerky into my palm. “I took you out of that compound for a reason. I will force-feed you that jerky before I let you starve yourself.”
“Fine. I’ll eat it. Whatever. You don’t need to get so bent out of shape about it.” I was hungry as hell so it wasn’t actually a concession, but he didn’t know that. I mean hell, I knew I needed the calories and the Cement Giant wasn’t going to blow itself to smithereens.
“I took a couple of bites as Dax got up and walked out of the camp.
I gnawed on the stuff as I leaned against my rock. “What flavor is this? It’s really good stuff.”
Lucy and Tank looked at me kind of oddly. Hey, if I was going to eat it I didn’t see a lot of reason to pretend it sucked. These people were weird.”
― Donna Augustine, The Wilds

“This was one of the perks of being nuts. No one expected you to behave in accordance to the general population’s playbook, and I enjoyed being a nonconformist.”
― Donna Augustine, The Wilds

“hell if I was going to be another person who stood by and watched another person get abused without helping. Some of the world’s greatest atrocities could’ve been stopped if people hadn’t just stood around watching.”
― Donna Augustine, The Wilds

“I wanted to stare it down and give the reaper the middle finger when I went.”
― Donna Augustine, The Wilds

“resisting was only going to accentuate how weak my position really was. I stopped fighting, as there was no need to broadcast it.”
― Donna Augustine, The Wilds

“What’s worse than dead? Is there a new ranking system in the Wilds I’m unaware of?”
― Donna Augustine, The Wilds

“even bullshit usually had a thread of truth running through it.”
― Donna Augustine, The Wilds

“Some of the world’s greatest atrocities could’ve been stopped if people hadn’t just stood around watching.”
― Donna Augustine, The Wilds

“It was all the choices you made in your life that determined who you were, not some abstract notion you made up in your mind, with motivations and feelings filtering out the ugly.”
― Donna Augustine, The Wilds