“The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.”
— Alex Scarrow
“Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,’ he said grimly.’Mankind just isn’t ready for that kind of knowledge. We’re like children casually playing with an atom bomb.”
— Alex Scarrow
“If you’re reading this, then I guess someone, somewhere does go through the rubbish and read every piece of paper that gets balled up and tossed away. So in that case here it is- my name’s Sal.”
— Alex Scarrow
“After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.”
— Alex Scarrow
“There isn’t anything you can’t make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.”
— Alex Scarrow
“I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!””Well, I am,” said Sal. “So can we go… please?”
— Alex Scarrow
“It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)”
— Alex Scarrow
“Was… That a “you’ve been a clever boy” kiss? Or… Uh…”
— Alex Scarrow
“In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it’s the women who suffer. It’s the women who learn what it is to be tough, not the men.”
— Alex Scarrow
“In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn’t have a care…”
— Alex Scarrow
“She laughed. ‘See? You can do philosophy!’ He rolled his eyes and shook his head. ‘Don’t insult me.”
— Alex Scarrow
“We’re all dead the moment we’re born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.”
— Alex Scarrow
“It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed.It sounded like a revolution.It sounded like hope.”
— Alex Scarrow