Mike Bond > Quotes

“In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.” − Carl Sagan”
― Mike Bond, The Drum That Beats Within Us

“The breeze across the desert as the light died was so sweet she could almost drink it.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“Then I remembered how she was - fiery, ruthless, smart, and despite herself very caring, not a person who hurts anyone.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“I have spent hours and hours watching elephants, and to come to understand what emotional creatures they are...it's not just a species facing extinction, it's massive individual suffering.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and thrushes.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“anyone who can look up at the stars and not feel the power of God probably cannot feel much at all.”
― Mike Bond, The Drum That Beats Within Us

“Wind blew snow crystals back and forth between the graves. The ancient pines creaked overhead.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“Why in the morning is there so much hope? And in the evening only fatigued”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“...He sat back on his heels and watched the stars one by one cut their way through onrushing darkness, till all was reversed, day was night, and the blackness glittered with all the desert's sands, each a tiny flame beyond the bounds of time.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“Inside her head or out in the desert was the same, and the air inside her throat was very dry to keep from crying and her neck sore from forcing herself not to look down, not to look back.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“One by one and then together the birds chanted, warbled, whistled, and cooed, like a rare desert plant bursting into life after the rain.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“A moment of peace and silence, breathing in and out the frigid air, watching daylight seep into the forest, hearing the first chatter of distant crows, the wind sighing over the snow and through the fir and pine branches and the twittering of chickadees as they flitted in little tribes from tree to tree.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“Though at opposite ends of our country, Maine and Hawaii are, other than climate, much alike. Places where you say who you are, be who you are, keep your word, and don't cheat or lie to take advantage of each other. Where you protect other folks because they are your tribe.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“Dawn raced like fire across the savanna.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“I Cherish You How much better to say this than I love you, the latter’s easy, love’s one syllable when cherish is two And it’s fun too, the love of words, for the best words can do is say how we feel, but the damn trouble is I love you so much and enjoy every minute of you and take pleasure in you and revere you so what the Hell I should just say it.”
― Mike Bond, The Drum That Beats Within Us

“A camel brayed columns from the rondavels; new sunlight struck the savage earth.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“These steel monstrosities screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire flocks of birds banished tourism and wildlife, made people sick and drove them from their now-valueless homes.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“The immense desert, empty as a bird's wing, inspired him with promise.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“...the track of the three camels and three pairs of sandals was like an arrow diminishing into infinity across the wavering sand.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this,' she said.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“But wasn't that progress too, that the elephants were killed off like the mastodon and giant rhino before them, like all other wildlife and wild places? 'We can't stop time,' MacAdam said. 'But you can change the way it goes,' Nehemiah insisted.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“To live well in the now you have to think sometimes about the future. We always live in what we’ve already made.”
― Mike Bond, America

“house, and locked the rifle and cartridges away in the dark”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“God brought me –” “Sura Twenty-two says one of God’s days is a thousand of ours, but Sura Seventy says fifty thousand … The Second Sura says God created the earth then the heavens, but the Seventy-ninth says the opposite. If one’s wrong, how can the Koran be perfect?”
― Mike Bond, Assassins

“up”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“a sense of peace, hopefulness, loneliness and danger.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“Only thing people love more than love is killing.”
― Mike Bond, Crude: Ukraine, Oil and Nuclear War

“Back in the late seventies and early eighties,” Thierry said, “when the Socialists realized they were out of step with the French people and would soon be out of office, they opened the gates and brought in all the North Africans they could, as the Arabs in gratitude would vote almost exclusively Socialist. In a national campaign with several candidates, two percent of the votes can be a huge margin, and having millions of Islamic voters can win the presidency though you barely get thirty percent of the total. It’s the only thing that’s kept the Socialists in power”
― Mike Bond, Goodbye Paris

“one,” Edgar said, “who told me school was like what that caste does in India – maiming their children young so they'll always be able to earn a living. As crippled beggars.”
― Mike Bond, Holy War