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

“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

“[...] 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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“παρίας”
― Graham Masterton, The Pariah

“Heacox had disobeyed the first two
laws of safety and survival: Do not touch unless you have to, and then do not touch
until you've checked. And maybe here in the Temple of the Dead there was one
more law, even more important: Do not touch until you understand it.”
― Graham Masterton

“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

“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

“Mor-Rioghain”
― Graham Masterton, White Bones

“his ears, and said, “Sssh, boy. Sssh. Time enough for prancing about in heaven, believe me.” Sergeant immediately calmed down, and whined in his throat, and slunk off back to the kitchen. “Well,” said Katie. “Who are you? The Mongrel-Whisperer?” “My father taught me. When I was a kid I was terrified of dogs so he trained me to control them. It’s an authority thing. If the dog knows that you won’t tolerate any kind of stupid behavior, he’ll behave himself.” “Let me take your coat.” Katie approached him and lifted his raincoat from his shoulders. For a moment they were close enough to kiss, if they had wanted to.”
― Graham Masterton, White Bones

“Were the eels themselves responsible for her death, or were they simply predators on a body that had already expired?”
― Graham Masterton, Night Warriors

“She used to think that he was so stocky, and bull-like, but now he felt like a laundry bag filled with old coat hangers.”
― Graham Masterton, Broken Angels

“The cop rolled against the side of the corridor and slid to his knees, leaving a trail of fiercely burning blood on the wall. Then he collapsed and lay still, and in front of our eyes, to our overwhelming horror, the flames that were burning inside him gradually broke out, singeing and then setting fire to his uniform from inside, and then engulfing his whole body until he lay on the carpet blazing like a ritual suicide.”
― Graham Masterton, Charnel House

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

“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

“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

“Katie had visited Belfast many times before, but mostly to the city centre, for meetings with the Crime Operations Department, and she had forgotten how blatant the hostility still was between republicans and loyalists. UFF could almost have stood for Us? Forgive and Forget? Dunboyne”
― Graham Masterton, Buried

“They were probably warning the first person to stay well clear until the bomb squad had determined that there wasn’t a second device intended to catch first responders. Next”
― Graham Masterton, Buried