Graham Masterton > Quotes

“Just because you can't see them and you can't hear them, that doesn't mean they're not here.”
― Graham Masterton, The Devil in Gray

“Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish their
children to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they must
understand that their children are not their property; that their children are
entitled to pursue happiness in any way they wish.”
― Graham Masterton, Ritual

“Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.”
― Graham Masterton

“It’s bad enough weeping for the loss of a love you once had. Don’t be after weeping for the loss of a love you never had at all.”
― Graham Masterton, Broken Angels

“[...] she hadn't realised how much she missed the company of women who laughed, women who spoke their own minds, women who didn't give a shit for anything.”
― Graham Masterton, The House That Jack Built

“And the human fear of eternal nothingness is the greatest fear of all. It is the one fear which every religion in the world seeks to assuage. It is the fear of being totally gone.”
― Graham Masterton, Night Warriors I

“Because this woman sobbed in the way that all women sob, whether they do it outwardly or whether they keep it silently locked up inside themselves. They sob because they realise, one day, that they were born on a planet of men, and that short of death or spinsterhood they can never escape. Effie's Aunt Rachel used to say, 'Even the slaves could run away, but where can women go?”
― Graham Masterton, The House That Jack Built

“The way to avoid the tragedies of the past is not to let them happen to begin with.”
― Graham Masterton, Broken Angels

“Well, then,' said Charlie, his face half hidden in the shadows. 'How long do you think this baby has been dead?”
― Graham Masterton, Ritual

“Gut ist der Schlaf, der Tod ist besser”
― Graham Masterton, The House That Jack Built

“I hereby solemnly and sincerely declare before God that I will faithfully discharge the duties of a member of An Garda Síochána with fairness, integrity, regard for human rights, diligence and impartiality, upholding the constitution and the law and according equal respect to all people”
― Graham Masterton, Red Light

“She climbed out of the car and walked across the farmyard with her raincoat collar turned up. Liam was standing by the open grave with his hands in the pockets of his long brown”
― Graham Masterton, White Bones

“Jeśli chce pan wiedzieć, to złorzeczyłem Bogu, że mnie zostawił. Czyż nie modliłem się zawsze, jak należy? Nie wierzyłem w Niego? Gdzie więc był wtedy... kiedy naprawdę Go potrzebowałem?”
― Graham Masterton, Swimmer

“Why does the life everlasting have to be won at such terrible cost? If the life
everlasting is true, why can it be achieved only through death, through grief, and
through agony? What kind of God is it who gives us the world and everything in it,
and the capabiliiy of loving so fiercely, and then takes it all away?”
― Graham Masterton, Death Trance

“One smile is more effective than a thousand shouts”
― Graham Masterton, The House of a Hundred Whispers

“Because there are some things in life that are so terrible it's better not to see them, not unless you really have to.”
― Graham Masterton, The Children God Forgot

“Iollan was one of the greatest of the Fianna, the ancient warriors who could visit the Invisible Kingdom whenever they wanted to.”
― Graham Masterton, White Bones

“It was about three hundred and fifty miles to the South Pole from the research station, and the flight took us low over the icy plateau. “Terrible terrain for man-hauling sledges,” Michael pointed out. “Dragging a sledge across those ice-crystals is like dragging it across sand. No friction at all.”
― Graham Masterton, Fortnight of Fear

“It's my destiny. Sometimes you're confronted with things in your life and you realise that you have to deal with them. You don't have a choice, because that's what you were born for”
― Graham Masterton, The House of a Hundred Whispers

“She’s still feeling very tired and she doesn’t have her appetite back, but her temperature’s back to normal,”
― Graham Masterton, Drought

“The rain fell as soft as the veil of a dying bride.”
― Graham Masterton, Walkers

“Well, just like the feller said when he showed up at the fancy-dress ball with a rubber johnny on his beezer and the doorman asked him what he’d come as –“fuck nose”.”
― Graham Masterton, Dead Men Whistling

“Like I say, this house is far too big for me anyway, and maybe it’ll do my head good to get away from the memories of your Ma. Sometimes I still think that she’s upstairs, in bed, and I have to go up just to make sure that she’s not.’ He paused, and then he said, almost inaudibly, ‘She never is.”
― Graham Masterton, Dead Men Whistling

“He was no longer an orphan, but finding out who his real father was made him feel as if he were standing naked in an icy wind, at night, with no shelter - a wind that would never stop blowing until the day he died”
― Graham Masterton, The House of a Hundred Whispers

“I've lived here all my life and it's a fascinating part of the world. There are so many legends and fairy stories about it - spooks and demons and witches. That's natural, I suppose, considering the landscape. You can go out on a foggy morning and imagine that you're the only human being in the world, but you can hear weird animal noises quite close by and see shadows flitting around, behind the fog”
― Graham Masterton, The House of a Hundred Whispers

“awake that she climbed out of bed and went to the window. She pulled the curtains aside, but the Kanes’ house was in darkness. She went back to bed, switched on her bedside lamp and picked up the crossword she had been trying to finish before she had grown too sleepy. One of down clues was ‘Together, the top and bottom of the world are manic’. The answer was ‘bipolar’. *** Next morning, as she came back with Barney from his early-morning walk, she found David Kane standing in her porch with the collar of his grey raincoat turned up. It was raining hard now and Barney had been stopping every few yards to shake himself. ‘Good morning, Katie,’ said David. ‘That’s the trouble with dogs, isn’it? You have to take them out to do the necessary, whatever the weather.’ Katie lowered her umbrella and shook it. ‘Don’t you have a dog?’ she asked him. ‘No, I couldn’t. If my patients smelled another dog in the house, whether they were dogs themselves or cats or whatever, they’d find it very disturbing.’ He stood close beside her as she unlocked her front door. ‘Talking of disturbing, the reason I’ve come over is to apologize for all the racket we were making last night, Sorcha and me. Sorcha was having one of her episodes.’ Katie stepped into the hallway and Barney followed her. David stayed in the porch as she hung up her raincoat. ‘Has she been back to her doctor?’ she said.”
― Graham Masterton, Taken for Dead

“The dead are more bloody desperate than we can even guess.”
― Graham Masterton, Flights of Fear

“παρίας”
― Graham Masterton, The Pariah

“Petrie. I stood up for a principle I believe in. If the whole of America has to die for that principle, then I still believe it’s worth it.’ ‘Even if the principle kills the very people it’s supposed to protect?’ Kenneth Garunisch turned away. ‘Principles are everything, Dr. Petrie. Without principles, we cease to be living beings.”
― Graham Masterton, Plague

“I never would have believed it, the way Hunter’s rousing people up. He’s talking like some kind of hostile fascist, and yet they’re loving it.”
― Graham Masterton, The Hell Candidate