Contracts Quotes

“That’s what the weakest of the weak do. They blame everyone else. They shirk all responsibility. They do anything and everything to advance their own position in society, and if it all falls apart they throw their hands up in the air and say, “What else could I have done?”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“in”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“Well-trained combatants think there’s a way to adapt to any situation. And usually there is. But sometimes the stimuli becomes too much. Sometimes you get overwhelmed. Sometimes… …it all falls apart.”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“This is life. Sometimes it’s messy.”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“They’re not going to notice anything out of the ordinary, because everything’s out of the ordinary.”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“But does it ever go the way you think it’s going to?”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“Pain was nothing to them. It’s everything to most people, who shy away when it crops up in their lives. But both he and King had made a career out of going directly toward the pain, toward the suffering, in hopes of a better result when it came time to perform. It was eerily similar to what elite athletes go through before competition, only with more dire physical consequences. If they didn’t perform in the field, they didn’t get a participation trophy. They died. That translated to a sickening work ethic, and a pain tolerance practically unrivalled anywhere else on the planet. It meant that when one of them badly sprained their ankle, they taped it back up and kept soldiering on, no matter what it did to them mentally. Because all pain comes to an end. It can’t last forever.”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“He didn’t think he’d ever get used to the sight of life sapping from a human being for as long as he lived.”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“Correlation isn’t causation—”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“It’s the same everywhere, not just here. All you need to do is find those with nothing left to live for. Who think they’re just a cog in a machine and that life is passing them by. Offer them a life-changing sum of money to stick a knife in someone’s back and they’ll do it without blinking.”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“happened”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts