“Now sit down and shut up, you autocratic frat boy. It’s adult swim.” — Marcus Sakey Shut Copy Share Image
“The room smelled of children, that sunlight smell over socks and sweat.” — Marcus Sakey Children Copy Share Image
“He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.” — Marcus Sakey Dystopia Copy Share Image
“Heavy clouds quilted the world as Ethan turned off the Honda.” — Marcus Sakey Clouds Copy Share Image
“the queasy purple of light pollution was lonelier than night.” — Marcus Sakey Lonelier Copy Share Image
“see them.” “They’re asleep.” “Can I pop in anyway?” “Sure,” she said. “I just” — 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 Fall 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 Killings 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
“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
“There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.” — Marcus Sakey Anecdotes 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
“Cooper was halfway out of his chair with realizing he’d moved, his body on full combat alert. His mind spinning,” — Marcus Sakey Psychology Copy Share Image
“Maybe the problem is that no one is telling the truth about it. Maybe if there were more facts and fewer agendas,… — Marcus Sakey Telling the truth 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
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 Beats 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
Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that… — Marcus Sakey Be good Copy Share Image
“He took out the sidearm. Thumbed the magazine release. A full load, hollow-points. Body armor would stop them, but if they hit… — Marcus Sakey Pistol Copy Share Image
“And you’ll need a leader to do it. A man of bold vision, one who promises you a world where you’re not… — Marcus Sakey Dreams Copy Share Image
He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it… — Marcus Sakey Choices Copy Share Image
“You don’t know that. And now we never will.” “We’re agents of the United States government, not some Third World dictator’s private… — Marcus Sakey Agents 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
“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
“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
“Cooper had been at a scene once where a car had collided with an agent and pinned him against a metal barrier,… — Marcus Sakey Cooper 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
“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
“Making love to make a child, the intensity that must bring, the way their eyes would be locked in wonder at this… — Marcus Sakey Birthday Copy Share Image
“The rats that had once fouled their food became their food. But soon the rats were gone. After two more days of… — Marcus Sakey Barber Discovered Copy Share Image
No matter how long you spend at creation, you're always a student. — Marcus Sakey Creation Copy Share Image
“Cooper walked, slow and steady, four-four time in a world gone off measure.” — Marcus Sakey Slow and steady Copy Share Image
“NO TRESPASSING and SOLICITORS WARMLY GREETED WITH GUNFIRE signs,” — Marcus Sakey Gunfire Copy Share Image
“Truth is a slippery concept.” “No, the great thing about the truth is that it’s true.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“The problem with the best moment in your life is that every other moment is worse” — Marcus Sakey Life Copy Share Image
“That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally.” — Marcus Sakey Terror Copy Share Image
