Jennifer Arnett Quotes

#1. It wasn't the type of CIA job you'd find an application for on Jobs/CIA.Gov. It was a deep black-ops organization that hadn't been to a Senate Committee meeting since the Reagan Administration, and even then it was falsely presented as a training program.

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#2. I refuse to sit and wait for salvation. Every day I have looked to the sky for the white streak of a plane making its way across the Pacific, but I have not seen any.

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#3. It isn't always the treasure that drives men down deep into the sea; it's something else, something unexplainable, even to them.

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#4. What they say about lawyers being useless isn't entirely true.

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#5. I felt civilized.

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#6. I can't help but imagine what that would be like - to be all alone on this island with eternity taunting me with loneliness. To say goodbye to the last human you will ever see - there is no crueler hand of fate.

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#7. A billion stars above us coat the sky white. It would have been beautiful back home, but not here. Here it is the ever present reminder that we are all alone and insignificant.

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#8. He needs a purpose, even if it kills him.

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#9. The mind is weak, and it must be mastered, controlled. The body, it knows no master save for instinct and, unfortunately, it is built for terminal suffering.

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#10. John spent the morning rebuilding his SOS sign on the beach. He says that he saw a commercial airliner pass over. I'm not sure if the trying circumstances have made him delusional, or if the plane was too high to see his small sign. I think he saw what he wanted to see.

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#11. Maybe they died of disease or lived on this island into old age, but no matter which, someone was the last man standing.

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#12. He'd done this hundreds of times: done a job, been drugged with a narcotic that erased his short term memory, and dumped in a seedy hole in the wall locale, where when he climbed out, he would have to figure out where he was, find a payphone, and call in for his next job.

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#13. This island is a hard place to survive and I fear that it has made everything resistant to the cruel hand of death.

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#14. The thing about the ocean is that the surface won't always tell you what is going on underneath.

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#15. But every tomorrow has led to today - to us being alone, hungry, and cold on an unknown island somewhere in the South Pacific.

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#16. Audiences are craving intricate and intelligent stories that keep them on the edge of their seats.

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