Bobby Adair Quotes & Sayings

The cultural infrastructure was buckling and society's veil of sanity was slipping away, exposing its uncharitable Id. — Bobby Adair

But for the absence of Satan, the world looked like Hell. — Bobby Adair

Naked on the bank, they looked like refugees waiting for the mercy of sepsis. It — Bobby Adair

How many dead can a person see before the pieces of his soul turn to ash and float off in the wind? — Bobby Adair

A person is nothing if not the product of the lies he believes about himself. — Bobby Adair

They had a smokehouse next to the pigpen - kind of morbid for the pigs. The — Bobby Adair

I was a wicked pirate assassin on my way to kill. Arrgh! — Bobby Adair

I wanted so badly to kick in his perfectly white, good dental plan teeth. — Bobby Adair

how you would feel if your old girlfriend showed up and she had the IQ of a frog. You'd — Bobby Adair

Repress the memories. That's the ticket to sanity. Forget. — Bobby Adair

We probably won't live long enough to run out of food, or electricity, or anything important." "Oh, you'll live," Murphy said. "I have no doubt." "Really?" Jerome asked, real curiosity in his voice. "What makes you think I'll last?" "Because you're a pussy! — Bobby Adair

Oft times, anger was all I had, my sole defining characteristic. It clung to me like an insecure girlfriend, and I put as little effort into sloughing it off. — Bobby Adair

his smile was alone on his face. His eyes were sad and angry. — Bobby Adair

I'm a pragmatic fucker when I start to get my head cleared out, even while the shit is flying. Whatever — Bobby Adair

History is full of examples of slaughter and victory. — Bobby Adair

We're all guilty of saying things, especially on social media, that hurt one another, that leave scars, and damage relationships. As I stumble over my mistakes in this area, I'm coming to realize that relationships with good people are precious things that should not be taken lightly. They are never worth risking for the sake of being right about some triviality that won't be remembered a month or a year from now. — Bobby Adair

And whenever he asked himself that one question - what wouldn't he do for the welfare of his children - the answer was always the same. There was pretty much nothing he wouldn't do for his children's sake. — Bobby Adair

I knew what was wrong. The virus was debilitating my coordination and I just didn't want to accept it. I — Bobby Adair

The darkest parts of my soul were thriving in the chaos of a world turned murderous black, and bereft of dreams. I was a downcast demigod, slayer of monsters. I bore the machete that drained their veins, stole their breath, and cut the life from their hearts. — Bobby Adair

Null Spot the Destroyer still had an imagination full of bad ideas and a pocket full of stupid to spend. — Bobby Adair

Pain today, pussy tomorrow. — Bobby Adair

In fact, I suspect they prefer flawed certainty to faultless ambivalence. — Bobby Adair

To choose to live, to make that choice to fight for life every day, had to be a choice to accept all the sorrows of all of my tomorrows. But if that choice to live was to be bearable at all, I needed to let loose my embrace of the pain, both yesterday's and tomorrow's. — Bobby Adair

suburban-cocooned ass — Bobby Adair

understand, I will forbid it. This is not a decision for the family to make. It is a medical decision." "You forbid it?" Najid laughed. "You are mistaken, — Bobby Adair

fallen empires of kings, dictators, and fools who were passionate, certain, and wrong. — Bobby Adair

The upper middle-class cracker neighborhood ignored me, focused instead on its own pockets of human chaos. Four — Bobby Adair

systematically looking at each of the fly-covered tattoos on one of the walls. — Bobby Adair

How will humanity react when it realizes that it has survived an extinction event? — Bobby Adair

Everybody knows what the dinner bell sounds like. — Bobby Adair

Dan gave chase with his big, blue-collar hands grasping at my shirttail. — Bobby Adair

My hands felt electrically charged. My blood was ready to burst from my veins and my heart was beating a manic rhythm. I was frightened out of my wits but I was catching a familiar, addictive adrenaline wave. I was ready to taunt the reaper. — Bobby Adair

Sure, shit happens we can't control, but that's exactly what it is: shit you can't control. You can't control what it is, or sometimes what it does to you. But like I've told you before, you can control how you feel about it, how you deal with it. — Bobby Adair

gazed blankly at nothing in particular. I knew that look. They were the Russells of the group. — Bobby Adair

You don't know anything about fear and hate," he told me. "Fear and hate aren't rational emotions, and they damn sure don't depend on the existence of valid reasons. People hate because they're afraid. People are afraid because they don't understand. — Bobby Adair

You move on, or you die. That's the way it is now." "Smile and get over it. Is — Bobby Adair

I thought you were dead." "So did I. Considering I was up against three soldiers, I did pretty damn well," he mused. She — Bobby Adair

I went into the living room and looked down at my mother's torn body and shook my head. It was surreal. I guess some people in that situation would have crumbled, some would have cried, but I'd emotionally disconnected from life a long time ago. For that, I had to thank the skeletal bitch on the floor, with her greedy rodent soul and her short-tempered ape-mate in the kitchen. If anything, her death was a belated answer to old prayers, with a bit of an unexpected mess. — Bobby Adair

surrender to the strident sunshine, it — Bobby Adair

So fuck Dan. Fuck the police. Fuck the doctors. Fuck Jerome. And fuck the infected! — Bobby Adair

The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood. — Bobby Adair

Whenever you fire a gun, it's like ringing a bell for Pavlov's dog. — Bobby Adair

The folks in this small town had made their last stand at the Piggly Wiggly. — Bobby Adair

not because they are based on any kind of fact. I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know to ask questions. And sometimes all you have to do is ask questions and things that aren't true fall apart under examination. — Bobby Adair

People are good and people are bad, sometimes one right after the other, sometimes simultaneously. Sometimes, — Bobby Adair

Better to see coming danger than to simply run and pray. Though I could make a pretty good case for run and pray. — Bobby Adair

I find it helps to lie to myself in hopeless situations. It keeps me trying, and it keeps me thinking. And I knew that if I did enough trying and thinking, I tended to still be alive when opportunities arose - so far. — Bobby Adair

Why do that?" Mandi asked. "It seems like if you spent a bazillion dollars on a big house with a gorgeous view, you'd want to show it off." "The same reason that the Klingons have a cloaking device," Murphy answered. "I'm sorry, Murphy, I have a life." Mandi's tone was disdainful. — Bobby Adair

Did you party too much and drop out?" "No, I got a philosophy degree. — Bobby Adair

He was dead. I was fixated on the horrid bite wound on my left forearm. For a long time I watched, hypnotized, as the blood oozed and dripped. — Bobby Adair

We were all commuters, traveling, serially to the same unsatisfying future, the same dead end. — Bobby Adair

The shop was a monument to uninhibited human depravity, the kind that scars souls with permanent shadows. I — Bobby Adair

The hot, stagnant air, only marginally cooler without the sun's heat, draped us in its sticky blanket. — Bobby Adair

Anyways, the epiphany I just had was this. Maybe guys like me who write with bad grammar and all and sound like what you might think a dipshit should sound like, actually aren't dipshits. We're just regular Joes, makin' the world go 'round. It's those fucks who talk and write so smooth and perfect that they make you feel like a dumbass because you don't. Maybe they're the dipshits. — Bobby Adair

Ebola, that little bastard of a bug, had popped up earlier in the summer in Sierra Leone in the worst outbreak in history. Was it possible that global warming had changed something important about the ecological balance in Africa and turned it into an optimal, continent-sized petri dish for breeding that virus? — Bobby Adair

Man, I'm just trying to get you lighten up a bit." "Murphy, we're looking at a thousand rotting corpses. Lighten up?" "Life is what you make it, man. — Bobby Adair

reasonable people often have difficulty anticipating irrationality from unreasonable people. — Bobby Adair

Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing. — Bobby Adair

every time a reader leaves a book review, a crippled monkey gets a free banana. I — Bobby Adair

Fort Hood had been a stockpile of the Army's tried and true tools for killing folks on an industrial scale, a — Bobby Adair

Hell, I'm looking at tattoo skins from dead people that might be my sister's. How fucked up is that? — Bobby Adair