Not Alone Quotes

“They have a narrative they want to get across,” Emma said. “If the facts don’t fit, the facts change.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“Earth being struck by an extinction-level asteroid or something of that nature.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“Billy had done similar”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“Wars and disasters are a struggling president’s best friends,”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“But maybe if I was lying to you, you wouldn’t see through it because you trust me so much. It wouldn’t even matter if the whole world told you I was lying; until you saw the lie for yourself, you wouldn’t believe it.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“What happens when we as a species start defining our existence in contrast to something else rather than each other?”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“Marshall Plan’s”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“Plato said it best: “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: when he first appears he is a protector.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“All human wisdom is summed up in these two words: wait and hope.” Alexandre Dumas”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“All human wisdom is summed up in these two words: wait and hope.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“for such nuance, and he knew that being dissociated from schizophrenia merely by degree could be fatal for his credibility. There was nothing he could do, though, so he rose again from the couch, muted the TV, and elected to do the only productive thing he could think of. With a new-found determination, Dan fetched the folder from under his bed and lifted out the unreadable German letter. All of the talk about wartime activity led Dan to think that this letter might be from the 1940s. It would almost explain the stupid writing, he thought. With that in mind he ran each of the letter’s pages through his scanner and looked at the images on his computer, zoomed to a size that helped him identify some of the calligraphic touches as particular letters. The first complete word Dan found — aided initially by the umlaut — was, ominously, Führer. He then successfully identified a few more words from the first page, becoming quite good at spotting instances of “ein” and “eine”. Further progress was hard to come by, though, and Dan soon couldn’t help but feel like he was running through treacle; getting nowhere despite applying himself totally. Dan looked at the time in the top corner of his computer’s screen and did a double take when he saw that more than 90 minutes had passed since he turned it on. He saved his annotated progress and decided to call it a night. The computer chimed as it powered off, which struck Dan as odd, but he shrugged it off. As he walked to turn off the TV — now replaying Billy Kendrick’s tenacious interview from immediately after Richard’s press conference — Dan heard the chime again. Doorbell, he realised. Dan stayed still. In the unlikely event that Mr Byrd had come to check on him this late, he would say so. He usually called through the door. No voice came. After a long gap that left Dan thinking that the caller had gone, he heard three rushed knocks on the window. “Dan McCarthy,” the visitor shouted at the glass. The high-pitched voice sounded vaguely familiar but was heavily muffled by the window. Beginning to realise that the visitor wasn’t going away any time soon, Dan walked towards the door. When he got there he heard footsteps on the other side, and then someone lowering themselves to the ground. “Dan McCarthy!” a chirpy voice called through the gap at the bottom of his door. He recognised it now. After a few seconds, Dan opened the door and saw a smartly dressed young woman crouched to the ground with her head on his doormat. She jumped to her feet, smiling warmly. “Dan McCarthy,” she said, holding out her hand. “Emma Ford. From the phone, remember?”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” John F. Kennedy FRIDAY”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“Government — or an administration — isn’t really the sum of its parts like people think, because all of those parts are competing for their own interests and pulling in opposite directions at the same time. It’s like an organism at war with itself.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“The present has passed before we can touch it, but the future is ours to shape. Serve”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“Reader's note: Not Alone was written, edited and produced in Scotland. As such, some spellings will differ from those found in the United States. Examples of British English include using colour rather than color, organise rather than organize, and centre rather then center. An exception to this rule is the use of proper nouns, which retain their American spelling where applicable.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“Wherever he looked, he saw people who demanded to be heard but had nothing to say.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“Britain’s recent political past meant that conservative leaders were chosen largely on their ability to sell unpopular policies to working people who wouldn’t benefit from them, so Godfrey was an even stronger debater than his predecessors and rivals.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“The safest way to sell a lie is to dress it up as a secret.” Kloster”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“He told me about the plan he’d had in place for so long and said he needed my help to start the leak sequence. I didn’t like it, but he told me this was humanity’s one chance to secure peace by uniting against an outside threat. Real peace through fake panic, he said. He sat me down and said that the dream so many millions professed to share — the dream of world peace — was finally within reach. He said it was selfish to let an abstract notion like truth stand in the way, because peace doesn’t make itself.”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” John F. Kennedy”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone