15 quotes
Contingency time is useless wasted time, right until you need it.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
Apocalypses are easier slept through than experienced.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
Anxiety loves company almost as much as misery.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
A current generation smartphone is more powerful than a 1991 supercomputer.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
The British ruling class was never noted for its expertise in haut cuisine. Rumors that they conquered a quarter of the planet in search of a decent meal cannot be discounted.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
I’ve known all along I’m not qualified for this—it’s not really imposter syndrome if you really are a fake.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
Venous blood isn’t really blue. In lipstick terms it’s dark plum, not crimson gloss.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
I’ve never been so frightened for somebody in my life: I felt totally powerless. You can’t punch extradimensional parasites out of your boyfriend’s brain.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
Story of my life. I wasted nearly a decade before I realized that life is not a game and there are no save points or second chances.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
American cops are so heavily militarized these days that the only way I can tell the difference between them and the army is the color of their body armor—that, and the army is less trigger-happy.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
I’m not a politician, even though I play-act one when the boss tells me to—I’m allowed to change my mind when my understanding of the facts changes.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
History is written by the survivors, a narrative they compose to explain events to themselves. So the historicity of journals like this one—their accuracy and authenticity—is a function of the reliability of the narrator.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
Shopping is the true religion of Middle America, and this Walmart is the most eclectic of mega-churches, perpetually understaffed and a bit unkempt, with stock flowing off the shelves and piles of stripped packaging forming cardboard snow drifts in corners.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
He’s had a lot of practice helping families suffering from experiences that are simultaneously mundane and far more horrifying than anything in a movie: deaths from cancer and dementia, the loss of babies and young children, that sort of thing.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
We’re enveloped by a cortege of motorcycle outriders and blacked-out SUVs so ostentatious that Her Majesty would die of embarrassment if they tried it on her back home. We are so visible I have to fight the urge to crouch down in my seat—but then I realize here in DC your importance is telegraphed by the size of the gridlock in your wake.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)