“Now sit down and shut up, you autocratic frat boy. It’s adult swim.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.” — Marcus Sakey Dystopia Copy Share Image
“The room smelled of children, that sunlight smell over socks and sweat.” — Marcus Sakey Children Copy Share Image
“But there was no pressing CTRL+Z on a day, no loading a previous copy.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“see them.” “They’re asleep.” “Can I pop in anyway?” “Sure,” she said. “I just” — Marcus Sakey Asleep Copy Share Image
“The lobby was at once attractive and bleak, a place meant to impress without creating the desire to linger.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“you are going to find that the heights you’ve attained make for a long fall if you don’t understand the mountain.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“And difference, as he learned that day, inspired a particular kind of savagery.” — Marcus Sakey Savagery Copy Share Image
“That’s insane,” said a goateed kid in front of Ethan. “You’re locking down the whole city to catch a couple of terrorists?… — Marcus Sakey Terrorists Copy Share Image
“That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally. From a certain perspective, the fear was more destructive than… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.” — Marcus Sakey Anecdotes Copy Share Image
“Turning the other cheek was a lovely sentiment, but in the real world, it mostly resulted in matching bruises.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where… — Marcus Sakey Book Copy Share Image
Once I came to really understand the mechanics of three-act structure, my life got a great deal easier. It doesn't tell you… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“a tidy Folk Victorian, two stories, bright blue, and dotted with windows. A picket fence framed a postage-stamp yard, within which a… — Marcus Sakey Victorian Copy Share Image
“It’s the great equalizer: black or white, male or female, norm or abnorm, the first thing most people do in the morning—before… — Marcus Sakey Black or white Copy Share Image
“He’d died before she moved to Chicago, but she’d followed the story of his shooting with the same queasy horror as the… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“She said, “‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked…’” She parted the curtains, looked out… — Marcus Sakey Brick wall Copy Share Image
“It was like meeting someone exceptional while you were married: the yank of possibility, the realization that here was another path your… — Marcus Sakey Life Copy Share Image
“The director shook his head. “The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have… — Marcus Sakey Better place Copy Share Image
“You wanted to believe that the sniper had a reason. That he wasn’t just a broken guy who’d been abused by his… — Marcus Sakey Insanity Copy Share Image
“intentions and results. Cooper’s intentions in killing Peters and releasing the video had been good; the results had been a disaster. Did… — Marcus Sakey Character Copy Share Image
“No, I’m talking about undiscovered science. A thousand years ago, people believed the earth was flat. Five hundred years ago, doctors thought… — Marcus Sakey Nature Copy Share Image
“In a minor way it was, he suspected, like Machu Picchu, or the Great Pyramid—a place you always forgot you’d never have… — Marcus Sakey Machu picchu Copy Share Image
“There’s a quote I love from the anthropologist Robert Ardrey: “We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes… — Marcus Sakey Apes Copy Share Image
“Cooper had been at a scene once where a car had collided with an agent and pinned him against a metal barrier,… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“Here’s the thing about freedom: Freedom is not a couch. It’s not a television, or a car, or a house. It’s not… — Marcus Sakey Every single day Copy Share Image
“For as fashionable as cynicism always was, the truth was that when it came to basic human responsibility, people rose to the… — Marcus Sakey Cynicism Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the truth was that Hell wasn’t a physical location; it was an idea that could be summoned into being. Hell had… — Marcus Sakey Hell Copy Share Image
No matter how long you spend at creation, you're always a student. — Marcus Sakey Creation Copy Share Image
“To learn the true value of something, all you had to do was lose it.” — Marcus Sakey Education Copy Share Image
