Cold Harbor Quotes

“You ever wish you could talk sense to who you used to be?”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Cold Harbor

“Do you know what China is?” Ogden asked. “It’s the Soviet Union on steroids. It’s Russia with a world-class economy and ten times the population. We literally spent the old USSR to death. That won’t happen with China. They are strong, rich, ambitious, and spend close to two hundred billion a year on their military.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Cold Harbor

“Thirty years ago, people could disappear into America and reinvent themselves. Now it took meticulous planning and a commitment never to reach out to your old life. For most, the lure of the Internet proved too great to resist—the urge to Google yourself, or search Facebook for the people you’d left behind. The simple truth was there was no such thing as starting a new life. The best you could manage was a convincing rebranding. A fresh coat of paint, but that was all. You might change your name. You might even change your face. But you couldn’t change the person underneath, and the person underneath would still have the same needs and wants, the same habits and tastes, the same strengths and weaknesses.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Cold Harbor

“Loose snow tumbled across the runway as they stared each other down like defanged gunslingers.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Cold Harbor

“So what? I was the patsy?” “You were the convincer. It played better if you were sincere.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Cold Harbor

“Do you know what China is?” Ogden asked. “It’s the Soviet Union on steroids. It’s Russia with a world-class economy and ten times the population”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Cold Harbor

“the world is too complicated to do business only with your friends.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Cold Harbor

“and traffic quickly went from bad to war crime.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, Cold Harbor