The Witnesses Are Gone Quotes

“It's odd how much our perception of cities owes to stories and films.We talk about 'Dickensian' London as if it had some real existence beyond the page. Deep down, despite the evidence of our lives, we can't really believe that anything is ever made up.”
― Joel Lane, The Witnesses Are Gone

“nothing gets you nothing. nothing, anyway, beyond your mounting sense of instability and alienation.”
― Joel Lane, The Witnesses Are Gone

“We were told to be on our guard against ‘terrorist reprisals’. It wasn’t terrorism when US planes bombed a wedding party, or when they wiped out an entire village as a gesture of frustration because Bin Laden had slipped through their hands. But it would be terrorism if the enemy did that to us.”
― Joel Lane, The Witnesses Are Gone

“We were told to be on our guard against ‘terrorist reprisals’. It wasn’t terrorism when US planes bombed a wedding party, or when they wiped out an entire village as a gesture of frustration because Bin Laden had slipped through their hands. But it would be terrorism if the enemy did that to”
― Joel Lane, The Witnesses Are Gone