Matthew James > Quotes

“birthday was just the annual anniversary of another day of getting older. It was truly just a number.”
― Matthew James, Plague

“A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.”
― Matthew James, The False Prophet

“Adolf Hitler who once said, “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” Jack stepped away from the newly opened fissure just as it collapsed, reburying itself for what he hoped was another eighty years. He vowed to tell no one of what he had found. It was too valuable in too many ways for modern man to have it. For now,”
― Matthew James, The Forgotten Fortune

“She shook her head. “Ifs” rarely meant anything except causing, or furthering, a headache. Worrying about something that might never come to be was a waste of time and energy. Time, she had. But the energy… That was something that was about to be put to the test.”
― Matthew James, Dark Island: The Definitive Edition - Foreword by Ernest Dempsey

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”
― Matthew James, The False Prophet

“Science is witchcraft until it's science again.”
― Matthew James, The Blood King: An Archaeological Thriller

“Back then, people were inherently superstitious, gullible, and wholly uneducated. Spreading falsehoods was easy.”
― Matthew James, The Blood King

“Fine but make it quick.” He winked at Mack and stepped aside. “I ain’t got much goin’ on and got no time to waste.”
― Matthew James, Dark Island: The Definitive Edition - Foreword by Ernest Dempsey

“asshat-of-a-man,”
― Matthew James, The Roosevelt Conspiracy

“Policies and laws were the contemporary weapons of government. Amend them, in just the right way, and you could allow anyone to do anything—and it’d be legal.”
― Matthew James, The Forgotten Fortune

“Every single wanker who calls themselves an archaeologist is a bloody grave robber.”
― Matthew James, Dark Island: The Definitive Edition - Foreword by Ernest Dempsey

“It battered Ian like it was a deflated hot-air balloon in the Albuquerque breeze.”
― Matthew James, Dark Island: The Definitive Edition - Foreword by Ernest Dempsey

“his cockiness was actually a good thing when fighting in the military. In a way, it was like how most sports athletes carried themselves. You needed to think of yourself as the best to succeed to the fullest.”
― Matthew James, Dark Island: The Definitive Edition - Foreword by Ernest Dempsey

“It had been nice to have two seats all to herself the entire trip there, that much she could admit. She’d ridden in one too many crowded buses in her lifetime, sitting next to someone that either didn’t speak English, or smelled, or was just in a foul mood. It was an awful, and lonely, way to see the world sometimes.”
― Matthew James, Dark Island: The Definitive Edition - Foreword by Ernest Dempsey

“Vengeance rarely met your expectations too. Most of the time, you felt depressed and unfulfilled once you exacted your payback. Ian believed it was a waste of time and energy to enact such a thing.”
― Matthew James, Dark Island: The Definitive Edition - Foreword by Ernest Dempsey