Assets and Liabilities Quotes

“His words were creating a bewildering maze of grammatically inappropriate junctures. It was the kind of maze where small, white mice died without ever finding the little lever.”
― David Archer, Assets and Liabilities

“me. You”
― David Archer, Assets and Liabilities

“that same instinct to create a safe place for you and your family, a place you can recognize and call home, can become so twisted that it ends up ready to annihilate a hundred million people over eight cities.” She glanced at me. “It starts with, ‘This is our safe area, for me and my tribe.’ Then becomes, ‘To be truly safe I need that bit of land there too. And I need weapons to protect it, and walls.’ After which it becomes, ‘My tribe and my land are better than yours, you are an existential threat to my tribe and you aren’t even really human anyway. So it’s OK if I just march in and wipe you out.’” ​We”
― David Archer, Assets and Liabilities

“We live in time where more and more countries are governed not by governments, but by men. Like in old times. And if you are not crazy when you take the throne, you will for sure be crazy if, after ten years, you have not left! Because personal political power make you crazy!”
― David Archer, Assets and Liabilities

“She didn’t drop below fifty, and taught that little Fiesta things Ford never intended it to know.”
― David Archer, Assets and Liabilities

“My brain said it would be very difficult for the Russians to control French officials that way, especially since Ukraine. My gut told my brain it was talking out of my ass. It was a very organic and slightly surreal conversation”
― David Archer, Assets and Liabilities

“He was small but his eyebrows were big. In fact they were the biggest eyebrows I had ever seen. They were large, luxuriant and very black.”
― David Archer, Assets and Liabilities

“there is always a better choice than cowardice, if you have business to take care of.” Then he laughed and shook his head. “One day, long ago, my life was shaped and my fate was fixed. Fearlessness is better than a faint heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago. But how I live, and how I die, that is my choice.”
― David Archer, Assets and Liabilities