The Drift Quotes

“We don’t realize, any of us, how much our existence depends upon hope and purpose, the promise of a new day. Take that away and we’re just automatons, going through the motions until we wind down and die.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“Funny, how many terrible things were done for the ‘greater good’.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“What these apocalypse agitators couldn't seem to grasp was that the planet was managing to self-destruct very nicely on its own, thank you. So, all the attacks, protests and assassinations were the equivalent of giving a wedgie to someone who was lying on the floor, bleeding out from every orifice, and expecting them to care.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“I had started to notice how careless people were; like they didn't realise how important it was to hold on to things or they could be gone forever.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“You’re either a good guy or a survivor. And the earth is full of dead good guys.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“The Devil was an Angel once.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“Well that's God's will."
"No. It's yours.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“They slept again. A small death. A good description. Blissful oblivion. No thought. No feeling. No pain. Everything was nothing. There was comfort in nothing.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“People are not black and white, and we all see situations in different ways. One person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist. One's crazy genius is another's dangerous psychopath. One person's leader is another's oppressor.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“When you loved someone, you tried to hold on to them because letting go meant admitting you would never hold them again.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“There’s always a moment, in a crisis, where a divide happens. Any group of people, however small, will begin to form alliances, and to display enmity. Discord will grow. Minor to start with, but there will come a crux point.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“Normally, Meg wouldn’t step aside for a man, but here, Sean did have the height advantage.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“When the world started to end, not with a whimper or a bang but with a slow, whistling sigh,”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“You can't hate someone who doesn't care .”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“My granddad told me to shoot too. you know what else he taught me? if the Earth is full of dead good guys… hell is full of fucking bitches like you.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“You're either a good guy or you're a survivor, someone had once told me. The Earth is full of dead good guys.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“In extreme situations, feeling like you are doing something makes a difference psychologically, even it has no effect on the outcome.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“She had felt more dead than alive. One foot in this world. One foot already in the other.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“But the idea of 'preparing' for death was a fantasy.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“Every day was a fresh reawakening of pain. Ripping the raw wound open again and again. She was too weak. She couldn't take it.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“But seconds before death could feel like an eternity.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“You'll never make it as a doctor if you let emotions intrude.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“You're either a good guy or you're a survivor. The earth is full of dead good guys.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“She examined his face, his mouth. A mouth she had kissed. Out of lust, loneliness, convenience, desperation. Never love.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“Death had been sudden, and violent. That was often its nature.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“Getting fresh supplies was a suicide mission.

Not getting them was a death warrant.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift

“When you loved someone, you tried to hold on to them because letting go meant admitting you would never hold them again. Few of us were prepared for that. So, we clung on, even when Death’s bony grasp would have been kinder.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Drift