The Last Survivors Quotes

“It is an unfortunate historical recurrence that uneducated societies tend to devalue women.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“Time heals all wounds? Can anyone live long enough to heal more than they bleed?”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“one thing I’ve learned through my life is never to expect luck to fall your way.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“rumors are lies with a different name.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“All creatures suffer,” said Jingo. “Men and women are just like the rest. The only difference is that we are intelligent enough to believe that we shouldn’t.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“Humans only exist for one purpose now, to drag each other deeper and deeper into the brutality of the darkest age of our existence and to murder ourselves into extinction.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“You need to see past it.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“If you look only for hate, you’ll see only hate.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“He was more disgusted by her touch than the sting of her hand hitting his face.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“The words, gentle and apologetic in their sound, were nothing but deceit.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“He wanted to hate her, but it hurt too much.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“but he couldn’t help accepting the truth. Fitz didn’t love him. She’d been using him all along, because she was a whore.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“How could Fitz be in love if she was spending days and nights in Tenbrook’s bed? And right there on the table, where anybody, a guard, a maid, General Blackthorn himself could have walked in and seen what had happened?”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“Lies, truths, meaningless words to describe meaningless rules. Only simple men need simple rules.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“Most people believe we’re monsters, because most of us are.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“Everything I feared is coming true.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“Sometimes, something has to matter.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“Choose to learn from the wisdom and missteps of others, or pay the higher cost of making your own mistakes.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“I loved her. I’d say that I loved her more than any man ever loved a woman, but I’m sure every man who loves thinks the same thing. I still think of her nearly every day. It hurts my heart, though I never show it, and I never talk about it.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“Because women are weak, a woman cannot keep the truth. Love triumphs over truth. So a woman’s words are lies.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“How ironically imperfect religion was.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“A position of power was no guarantee of free will.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“Franklin realized at that moment that dreams don’t come true. They only lose their pretty facades and expose themselves as the nightmares beneath.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“No name ever came with the rumor, as though the names themselves had run away from the stories in fear.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“Hearts harden under the hammer of fear, and yours will be no exception.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“I don’t know,” said Jingo, “I truly don’t. As advanced as we were, as much as we’d learned, the world still held many secrets. We had no idea if we were the first people to know what we knew.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“They’d beg. They’d point accusing fingers at one another. They’d rob. Eventually, they’d look at one another’s gaunt faces and realize the merchants were not thin. They’d see that the soldiers had been well fed. They’d see no sallow cheeks among the Elders. And they’d point their bony fingers away from one another and at those with full bellies,”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

“Men don’t like the truth when it is hard,” said Blackthorn. “They’ll do anything to pretend the truth is false. They’ll lie to themselves. They’ll believe the lies of others. That is the nature of men.”
― Bobby Adair, The Last Survivors: the Complete Series