Recruitment Quotes

“Needing help isn’t weakness. Weakness is not helping someone who needs it.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“Careful”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“The thought of my father makes me smile. It’s been almost six years since I last saw him.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“I’ve never been more aware of our strange bond than I am right now.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“Preemptively tell the world that you suck”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“See. That’s what I was thinking, but I didn’t say anything before. We’re supposed to find out the chances of the”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“in my mind, the outside world is littered with obliterated buildings, overturned cars and grav-trams, huge cities in fiery ruins, and stacks of burned bodies. All the things we’ve seen over and over on the viz-screens. All the casualties of war. I shake the images from my head. I’m afraid they’ll make me go crazy or else drag me down to the point where I’m drowning in my own tears.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“share your talents, teach others what you know, learn from others what you don’t know, and ask as many questions as you can. Those words kind of became the school’s unfortunately-long slogan over time.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“One time a few years back, he told me his philosophy. “Preemptively tell the world that you suck, and they’ll never accuse you of sucking. At the very worst, they’ll pity you for your suckiness, and that’s way better than having them think you’re arrogant.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“Needing help isn’t weakness. Weakness is not helping someone who needs it.” Out”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“Look,” he told them, his arms extended as he stood between the two red-faced boys, “You’re both right and you’re both wrong. We’re all screwed, and I haven’t pooped in like three days, so can we all just agree that helping me find some fiber should be our top priority?”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“So much has happened since then...yet I feel like he and I haven't really managed to get a whole lot closer. It's like there's a wall between us that either I put up or he did. It's threatened to crumble once or twice, but maybe it's too strong for either of us to break through.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“I can't get my head around Rain's question. Card's my best friend. No, he's more than that. After losing my father and brother, in a lot of ways, Cardyn has been everything to me. He's been with me through so much---even the secret stuff, like my training with Render. What Rain might think were amorous stolen moments between us in the woods in the Valta were actually some of the most special times in my life. Card and I talked about our hopes, our feelings, our fears. We supported each other when we were down and reveled in each other's happiness when things were going great. We had an intimacy then, a bond beyond Rain's limited ideas of what two people can mean to each other. Besides, when did 'just friends' get to be such a bad thing? Cardyn isn't 'just' anything to me. There's no way I'll let someone that close, that special, that indispensable in my life, be demoted to a 'just' anything.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“But at least I'm beginning to feel like an active participant in my own life now, instead of slogging around in the Valta waiting to die.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“I just wish I could get closer without losing myself.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“It's never occurred to me before how much my imagination ramps up my fear. But here they are, feeding off each other with total disregard for my sanity.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“A life that's all about routine and the pressure to just stay alive can be a double-edged sword. There's comfort in routine, but that comfort comes with boredom and with frequent anxiety about what might happen when that routine is finally broken.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“I'm feeling extra affectionate today. Maybe it's the fear of an unknown future that's driving my need for human contact.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“He told me his philosophy: Preemptively tell the world that you suck, and they'll never accuse you of sucking. At the very worst, they'll pity you for your suckiness, and that's way better than having them think you're arrogant. There was a morbid logic to it.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!’ Quoth the Raven ‘Nevermore.’” — Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment