The Solar War Quotes

“You set a code on your alarm?” Grigory mutters when he realizes I’m awake. I roll over and tap the six digits into the phone and it silences. “Yeah, it ensures it actually wakes me.” “No, it only ensures that it wakes me.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“My mouth runs dry. Hundreds of asteroids are going to hit the Earth. The large asteroids were just a diversion. The harvester somehow hid the smaller asteroids from our sensors. We were so focused on the larger threat we just… missed it.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“birthright is happiness. Our greatest challenge to achieving happiness is not the obstacles we encounter in our life. The true barrier to happiness lies inside of us—and it’s the one thing we can’t ever escape: our own mind.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“It’s always the quiet ones that surprise you.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“What defines success in war? Is it defeating your enemy? Or obtaining your objective? Our goal was to survive—and retain”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“Chandler pauses, seeming pained about what he’s about to say. “I would also encourage viewers to look at the source. Perhaps the only fact that no one can deny is that James Sinclair is a convicted felon. Before the Long Winter, the United States government deemed him a risk to public safety.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“Billions died during an ice age known as the Long Winter.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“But grief is much more than that. It is our mind’s manifestation of our fear that our life will never be as good as it was before our loss. Grief strikes in those moments where our loss is laid bare. It overcomes us when we see a picture of the people we’ve lost. When we find something they made. When we remember a phrase they used to say. Like fear, grief can be paralyzing. But, like fear, it also motivates us. To get over our grief, we have to move on. We have to patch the holes in our life left by our loss. That is the purpose of grief. It is a pain that our mind uses to try to force us to repair our lives as best we can.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“We have to patch the holes in our life left by our loss. That is the purpose of grief. It is a pain that our mind uses to try to force us to repair our lives as best we can.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“that we will leave a mark on the world, that we will be mourned as well.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“The Birthright asserts that grief is our mind’s way of remembering the people we’ve lost. Grief reminds us that their lives were important. Why? Perhaps it’s a method of self-preservation. Perhaps grief is our minds’ way of reminding us that our lives are important too”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“The Birthright asserts that grief is our mind’s way of remembering the people we’ve lost. Grief reminds us that their lives were important. Why? Perhaps it’s a method of self-preservation. Perhaps grief is our minds’ way of reminding us that our lives are important too—that we will leave a”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“Fear—if we let it—will focus our mind on the object of our fear, the event we dread or the outcome we can’t bear. It will operate like a horror film on repeat, playing endlessly in our minds. We must recognize fear as an alarm and turn it off. That is how we master excess fear—seeing it as a broken alarm, a common event in everyone’s life. With time and practice, you can learn to turn the alarm off.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“Every human is born with a birthright. That birthright is happiness. Our greatest challenge to achieving happiness is not the obstacles we encounter in our life. The true barrier to happiness lies inside of us—and it’s the one thing we can’t ever escape: our own mind. “From birth, we are educated on countless aspects of life on earth, from personal hygiene to personal finance, but there is no widely accepted curriculum for understanding and managing our own minds. Indeed, almost every human remains the victim of their own mind throughout their entire life, never learning to master it, or manage it, or even understand it. The Birthright was written to change that. This book is an owner’s manual for a human mind. If you read it and do the maintenance it recommends, your mind will run smoothly. It will break down less often, and in the end, it will take you to your birthright. Indeed, a well-tuned mind is the only road to true and lasting happiness.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“Most who live past those dangers die of one of two diseases: kwashiorkor and marasmus.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“We’re at war. In war, you fight the battle in front of you, and you don’t always know how that battle will affect the war’s outcome.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“At one of the supply closets, I find the item I need: duct tape. All good plans eventually involve duct”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“Like fear, grief can be paralyzing. But, like fear, it also motivates us. To get over our grief, we have to move on. We have to patch the holes in our life left by our loss. That is the purpose of grief. It is a pain that our mind uses to try to force us to repair our lives as best we can.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“Fear is good. Fear is why our species has survived so long on this planet. But fear can malfunction.” I look around the group, at the dozens of faces, all eyes fixed on me. “‘Fear is like an alarm. We—as owners of our own minds—must turn it off when it has served its purpose.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“To keep hope alive.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“almost every human remains the victim of their own mind throughout their entire life, never learning to master it, or manage it, or even understand it.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“Hearing a child say “I’m hungry” has to be the most gut-wrenching thing in a parent’s life, followed closely by the moment when you say, “There’s nothing I can do.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“Clinging to a life that is gone forever isn’t healthy. Time and action are the only cures for grief.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“What is fear? Fear is what saves our life when we look up and realize a car is rushing toward us. Fear makes us get out of the way. Fear focuses us. Fear makes us think about the future and about the decisions we make today and how they might impact our lives. Fear is good. Fear is why our species has survived so long on this planet. But fear can malfunction.” I look around the group, at the dozens of faces, all eyes fixed on me. “‘Fear is like an alarm. We—as owners of our own minds—must turn it off when it has served its purpose.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“What is fear? Fear is what saves our life when we look up and realize a car is rushing toward us. Fear makes us get out of the way. Fear focuses us. Fear makes us think about the future and about the decisions we make today and how they might impact our lives. Fear is good. Fear is why our species has survived so long on this planet. But fear can malfunction.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“That’s good news,” Izumi says. “The other good news is that the human body is very adaptable. When it doesn’t get the calories it needs, it shifts its metabolism to buy us time to find those calories. The first thing it does is take the glycogen from our livers and convert it to glucose which goes into our bloodstream. When that glycogen is gone, the body starts using stored proteins and fat. Initially, these are broken down into glycerol, fatty acids, and amino acids, which lower the body’s need for glucose. The proteins that aren’t essential for survival will be used up first. If the body still isn’t getting the calories it needs, it shifts again. It starts relying on fat more, which it converts into ketones. And finally, when the fat reserves are gone, it begins cannibalizing the remaining protein. Muscles, our largest protein stores, are quickly depleted. That leaves proteins essential to cellular function. When the body begins using those, organ damage and failure follows. At this point, the immune system begins to severely degrade. Infectious diseases we might have fought off easily become deadly. Death from cardiac arrest is common at this stage. Most who live past those dangers die of one of two diseases: kwashiorkor and marasmus.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“Fear is like an alarm. We—as owners of our own minds—must turn it off when it has served its purpose.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“It’s amazing how hearing from someone with a different point of view reveals your blind spots.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“If you don’t master your fear, your fear will master you.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War

“Fear is normal. Ignoring it is not.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Solar War