Russian Roulette Quotes

“one hundred”
― David Archer, Russian Roulette

“in the end what they all had in common was that these were not people. They were consumers: units for the consumption of goods and the payment of revenue. The crime here, the monstrous crime, was not that Bill, or Tracy, or the twins, Grandpa or Aunty Peg were going to die a horrible death, it was not that children were going to be robbed of their parents, or parents robbed of their children. The crime, the heinous, monstrous crime, was that the American economy was going to be crippled”
― David Archer, Russian Roulette

“had been a constant source of recrimination and criticism. He measured all people against his own unattainably anal standard. It was a standard which was too pathetically low to be measured, but which through the microscope of his own small mind he saw as perfect. ​But Peter, unencumbered by morality, held nobody to any standard. He knew that where there was no good, there could be no standard.”
― David Archer, Russian Roulette

“Then you found ways, strategies for dealing with it. There were techniques. She knew because she had studied them. The best one she had found was to turn the memory black and white, freeze the action, push the frozen, black and white image far away, notice the feeling of peace…”
― David Archer, Russian Roulette

“She had long been aware that her organic being produced all the physical expressions of emotion, while she herself felt nothing. It was a paradox.”
― David Archer, Russian Roulette

“For a moment I was assaulted by the nightmare vision of DC as a wrecked, blackened graveyard of twisted steel girders and crumbling concrete. It had happened to Nagasaki and to Hiroshima. People, normal families, couples, children, had been going about their daily lives. A plane had appeared far above them, in the sky; most of them hadn’t even seen it. Its payload dropped from its belly while the children played and people chatted, and it never even reached the ground. ​The transition from “normal everyday” to total annihilation had happened in fractions of a second.”
― David Archer, Russian Roulette

“They want to subject society and the economy to a prolonged period of stress and fear, right?”
― David Archer, Russian Roulette

“The stock market crash of ’29 did more damage to this country than either of the World Wars or the Cold War, and that was triggered by uncertainty and chaos.”
― David Archer, Russian Roulette

“contemplating the word, “pinguid.” It was a good word. It meant fatty, oily, greasy, unctuous.”
― David Archer, Russian Roulette