The Very First Damned Thing Quotes

“The truth is always important. It may not be popular, or fashionable, or convenient but it is always important. Somewhere there must always be a record of events as they actually occurred. Not the politically airbrushed record, or religious wishful thinking or the socially acceptable version, but the often inconvenient truth.’ ‘My”
― Jodi Taylor, The Very First Damned Thing

“The truth is always important. It may not be popular, or fashionable, or convenient but it is always important. Somewhere there must always be a record of events as they actually occurred. Not the politically airbrushed record, or religious wishful thinking or the socially acceptable version, but the often inconvenient truth.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Very First Damned Thing

“In the unlikely event of anything going wrong, we will certainly never know anything about it.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Very First Damned Thing

“The truth is always important. It may not be popular, or fashionable, or convenient but it is always important.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Very First Damned Thing

“I believe I can provide an environment in which he can thrive. I should perhaps warn you both, however, that I am very much a "one strike and you're out" employer. You will find that while I am prepared to walk through fire for my people, I have no hesitation, should they cross me, in using their bodies to feed the fire through which I should be walking.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Very First Damned Thing

“Yes, we study the events but it is people who are the cause of those events. It always comes down to cause and effect.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Very First Damned Thing

“I always think History is more about people than events, don't you?”
― Jodi Taylor, The Very First Damned Thing

“That such courage, so many good qualities, courage, spirit, and dedication, should be wasted on something as futile as war.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Very First Damned Thing

“And even those considered villains do not invariably display villainous qualities. Napoleon himself was moved to tears by the sight of a soldier's dog standing guard over his dead master. He frequently said he was haunted by the memory for the rest of his life.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Very First Damned Thing

“The pigeons, it can be assumed, considered their options and then continued with their own plans for the afternoon.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Very First Damned Thing