LIFEFLASH Quotes

“In the future, the scarcest resource is the attention of another person.”
― Tom Deaderick, Lifeflash

“She reads me at a college level and I'm on Dr. Seuss.”
― Tom Deaderick, Lifeflash

“It wasn't too far, unless there was someone shooting at you, then it was.”
― Tom Deaderick, Lifeflash

“There are dangerous people ready to pull the seams out of everything you've stitched together, and they can pull apart faster than you can hold.”
― Tom Deaderick, Lifeflash

“Technology has uncovered our world. Hardly a moment goes unrecorded, analytics engines trail our every move, giving us a confidence in the world around us beyond the ken of anyone who lived before us. Everything they knew, we know, the moment we might need to know it.”
― Tom Deaderick, Lifeflash

“Normal society flowed. People went to work, went to school programs, raised families, but over here where no one was looking, there was awfulness with children trapped in it, slowly sinking.”
― Tom Deaderick, Lifeflash

“It's the parts that reflect back at us that we most dislike in other people.”
― Tom Deaderick, Lifeflash

“This is the rare thing, Jon thought, one of the moments when you feel life snapping into place.”
― Tom Deaderick, Lifeflash

“People looked at a knife a lot differently than they'd look at stunners. A knife can get someone's attention when you want it.”
― Tom Deaderick, Lifeflash

“Just driving around looking for him is not going to help. We might as well go back and wait on the porch for news as drive around. You're only going to see yards that're neglected and filled with old cars out there. They could kidnap an elephant from the zoo and be dressed like circus clowns with it in the basement and you'd drive past without noticing anything unusual.”
― Tom Deaderick, Lifeflash

“First thing Falvo said after he slapped my arm was, 'What time is it?' I've been with a few other people who wake up after getting shot and being dug around in for a slug. That's the first time anyone ever asked that particular question, like they had something important to attend to and happened to get shot on the way.”
― Tom Deaderick, Lifeflash