Delta Green Quotes

“People throw the written word around like it is less than garbage. Like it is worthless. Words can kill, my dear. Symbols twice over. They can teach others to kill. They're more dangerous than speech, though speech has its purposes. You can bury words, you can print them on a million sheets, you can tattoo them on your skin.  Writing was created to cut open this world. That's the whole reason for it. What do they teach, that the first civilized man appeared in Mesopotamia ten thousand years ago? Do you truck with such nonsense? Pity.”
― Dennis Detwiller, Delta Green: The Way It Went Down

“I was brought in as the science guy. "Ask the science guy," they'd say, never really engaging me until something needed to be looked at. But I was with them when they raided the lab. I saw assets, they saw targets.   They didn't even glance at the notes on the whiteboard (covered in brains as it was). They didn't see the cryopreservation cylinder. They didn't pay any attention to me going through it all and picking up the notebooks. They didn't care. There was too much screaming. Too much arguing about what to do with the bodies.  I was the science guy; what else was I supposed to do?”
― Dennis Detwiller, Delta Green: The Way It Went Down

“These books, they’re real. What’s in them is real. I know that. I read them enough. The first guy who brought one in to the junk shop, he set to drinking in the Hole, and he never did get out of that hole, if you know what I mean. He drove his truck into the river after telling me about the library out there in the waste. A library so big, and so filled with these books, that you wouldn’t believe. A place that weren’t built by no man. He marked it on my map. I got my pack. I got food and water for days. I got my jeep and my rifle. I’m going to go out to this library and see what else the books in the stacks have to say.”
― Dennis Detwiller, Delta Green: The Way It Went Down