Quotes From "Atlas" By

Madness doesn’t get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off. Unknown

In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the deeds done. When the clouds roll away, however, the rain has washed away all the blood in the streets and the world is clean and new again, as if all the violence and destruction of the storm served a divine purpose. Unknown

It isn’t easy when life tears away the one person in a million you thought you could always trust. Unknown

Human’s aren’t concerned with reality, merely their perceptions of it. Unknown

I haven’t got time for a love life and that’s usually frustrating to the would-be lovers. Care to make a run for it? Unknown

. “We’re both.. I mean, you’re more so, but we’re both really fucked up emotionally. I mean, how do I know you’re not still loopy from being shot full of.. of..”“ Benzodiazepine, ” he said.“ Yes, that.” Victoria’s eyes met with his a moment and then looked away. “It’s been awhile for me, ” she said at last. “I mean, I’ve slept with people..”“ So have I, ” he said. . Unknown

I see a cathedral, for instance, one that’s stood for centuries and I marvel and I wonder.. How many people passed through the doors? What did they pray for? How many wars did they wish to see ended? How many christenings, weddings, and funerals? Same thing with a record, I guess. Who bought it? Did they ever make love while it was playing? How many times did they read the notes in the cover? Did a song on the album change their life? I suppose it's odd to think about things like that. Unknown

I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god... What fools these mortals be. Unknown

Nice dress, ” Victoria said.“ Thank you, ” Perpetua said. “Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?” Victoria blinked. “Uh, what? Unknown

The name Atlantis came from an old book Victoria had never read. A lifetime residency in the ASM paradise was rumored to cost anywhere from 15 to 20 million dollars. The rich and powerful lived under the dome because they considered themselves separate and superior. Few of them left the comfort and security of Atlantis. To them the outside world was weak. Second Sector citizens where miscreant dregs of a defunct society. In order to enter the Atlantian dome one first had to be cleared by a resident. Gate security personnel strictly enforced this rule, even when outsiders carried a badge and gun. Unknown

Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days. Unknown

I’m sure the ‘I wouldn’t fuck a murder conspirator’ argument wins over many an internal affairs review board. Bring him in. It’ll be in your favor. Unknown

Since you haven’t got a name, ” he said. “I guess you can pick one for yourself. Would you like to pick one for me to write down?” She stopped rocking and looked at him. “I can do that? It’s legal and everything?” He smiled. “It’s a free country again, ” he said. “At least in theory.” She nodded. “And when I pick a name it can be any name I want?” He nodded.“ What’s your name?”“ Victor, ” he said. “Vic, for short.”“ Okay, ” she said, leaning forward and taking the pad from under his large thing hands. “How do you spell that?” He spelled it and she wrote it down. Her handwriting was perfectly small and legible. “Can I be Victor, too?” she said, looking up from the pad. He smirked. “It’s a boy’s name, ” he said. “You’re a girl. You have to add an i and an a to the end if you want to make it a girl’s name.” She looked down at the name she had written and added the letters i and a to the end. “Victoria, ” she said, passing the notepad back to the cop.“ Hello, Victoria, ” he said, smiling, taking the pad and pen back and presenting his hand for a shake. “It’s nice to meet you, officially. Unknown

When I was a kid, they had a saying, 'to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.’ Unknown

Some people, when there’s a threat of everything they have being ripped away at a moments notice, they place value on the things they can keep with them, or find anywhere, so they can say ‘these are my things, nobody else can touch them.’ Unknown

When you're used to having nothing, nothing becomes your everything, and you never really want for anything. But it's a double-edged sword, because there's the danger of becoming complacent, becoming too happy with that nothing, because you've never known anything better. Complacency is the death of dreams, and freedom. Isaac Hooke