Victor Robert Lee Quotes & Sayings

And yet with that bleak horizon before her eyes, Katerina had said the first problem was the uranium. All the children dying. It came to that: women and their children. Even women and the children who did not belong to them. It was the only force in the world resisting the centrifugal destructive rage of men. — Victor Robert Lee

If it's not one god it's another. Allah or oil. Jesus or Jewels. Lenin or lust. — Victor Robert Lee

Semtex, PE4, C-4, Plastrite, Netrolit, Spring Korper, Rowanex
Cono felt slightly shameful about his familiarity with plastics, and yet seeing them here, even so amateurishly arranged, gave him a perverse comfort. — Victor Robert Lee

In my country, when we think about the future, we shake. — Victor Robert Lee

I know him by another name. His real one is Slem, not uncommon for men of his generation. It stands for Stalin Lenin Engels Marx. He's always making up new names for himself
wouldn't you? — Victor Robert Lee

A kite only flies if it's tethered. — Victor Robert Lee

A pack of five dogs, as variable in size and shape as humans, trotted in a veering path toward the two men; they sniffed and growled and nipped at one another, then broke into a lope down the street, with the smallest mutt in the lead. — Victor Robert Lee

I believe in the goddess of mystery. And she's always pregnant! — Victor Robert Lee

After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do. — Victor Robert Lee

Maybe he had become addicted after all - addicted to being the pivot point, to being as central as that crucial joint between copulating man and woman, but with a danger that did not know the bounds of orgasm. — Victor Robert Lee

It's only a cut, a reminder of this day. A reminder to ask every day, Why am I doing this? — Victor Robert Lee

Your death rides a fast camel. — Victor Robert Lee

Why ruin the present by talking about the past? — Victor Robert Lee

Even now, I feel your arms around me
My breath is your breath and yours mine
Even now, I hear you laughing like bells ...
You sing to me and I sing to you
Dear child of my womb, my love,
Time has left us, left us forever together. — Victor Robert Lee

Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams. — Victor Robert Lee

Freedom is hard to come by. — Victor Robert Lee

Todd was neuter, it seemed, except for the near-orgasmic pleasure he took from his formulas. Cono guessed that only a person who didn't really care for people could find personalities in equations, and friends in matrices. Todd spoke of data sets as if they were current or future lovers. Cono admired him for his ability to find joy beyond the secretory impulses that controlled most humans. — Victor Robert Lee

What took you so long? Waiting for Buddha? — Victor Robert Lee

Most men overestimate themselves. It's the only way they can reproduce. It's why we're all here, us humans. Overestimation. — Victor Robert Lee

Ah, men losing the power in their dicks. When they can no longer f_ their women, they f_ the world. — Victor Robert Lee

To Cono's mind the three assailants were all three nearly motionless even as they skittered and dodged, firing, maneuvering for a kill. Cono felt exhilaration - the ecstatic awareness that his strange brain and body had ordained him for just such moments, by allowing him to enter a space outside of time. — Victor Robert Lee

Tamaris to her fellow jihadi: "Don't pray-- shoot! — Victor Robert Lee

And yet Xiao Li always spoke of her mother as if her image were mounted in a red-and-gold picture frame resting on a shrine in the corner of a tidy house, to be venerated and pleased at all times, like a deceased ancestor ever-present and scrutinizing her progeny. — Victor Robert Lee

Imagine the joy of that - of not being beneath that big thumb. Imagine no longer being a beetle, but being a man. — Victor Robert Lee

To make a friend you must close one eye. And to keep a friend, you must close both eyes. — Victor Robert Lee

You, Cono, are part of a new trend of uncovering the genetic basis of human performance anomalies. — Victor Robert Lee

Beijing? Freedom? Oil and water. — Victor Robert Lee

Lift your eyes, straighten your back, let fear and pain walk away like the turtles they are. — Victor Robert Lee

No person is just one person. Everyone is a crate of fruits, a crate of mixed fruits. The apple in there may have worms, a peach may be mildewed, a banana may be too green, a pear may be in perfect ripeness, and a melon may have the sweetest smell. — Victor Robert Lee

She was like him, trying to embrace the moon while making her way in the world through instinct and drive that came only from within, because she had only herself. — Victor Robert Lee

It's a heavy responsibility, having saved someone's life. You feel an allegiance because you saved them, but it's hard to know if you did the right thing. — Victor Robert Lee

History is running very fast in my country. — Victor Robert Lee

He has freedom on his face. — Victor Robert Lee

Cono felt embarrassed by the thought that he might have been just another pitiful orphan trying to turn his friends into family, and that he might be blinded by this need, a need that colored his whole life, that ache to offer worth to someone. — Victor Robert Lee

Sounds like the rival is a good soldier, Cono said. Like the Russians say, a bad soldier is one who doesn't try to become a general. — Victor Robert Lee

Cono knew that all three of his tormentors would know the anthem by heart from their childhood years. They had sung it daily to belong to the elite of their country, wearing around their necks the red ties of the Communist Party Youth Brigade, which had formed their beings and all that they would be and would ever believe, even as communism became a ghost and the party a web of corruption. — Victor Robert Lee

The people need a strong leader. They feel insecure if they don't know who to fear. Isn't that why god was invented? — Victor Robert Lee