David Feintuch > Quotes

“You have to give me something, Seafort. Politics is the art of the possible.” Father gazed at the Station. “Sir, I can give you nothing. Morality is ... the art of the absolute.”
― David Feintuch, Voices of Hope

“Is she dead?” “No.” “A pity.”
― David Feintuch, The Still

“Don’t, Jar. There’s been enough killing.” “It’ll never be enough! They murdered Dad!”
― David Feintuch, Voices of Hope

“Peetee say slow and careful, “I’m not afraid of you.” Halber blink. After min, he ask, “Why not?” “I’ve been terrified all week. It’s time to stop.” Don”
― David Feintuch, Voices of Hope

“No, youngsire, the truth. It’s a whimsy of mine; at table we speak of each other with candor.” “Only at table?” “Isn’t that enough? We spend the rest of the day repairing the damage.”
― David Feintuch, The Still

“Let’s set the place afire.”
― David Feintuch, The Still

“You have to give me something, Seafort. Politics is the art of the possible.”
Father gazed at the Station. “Sir, I can give you nothing. Morality is… the art of the absolute.”
― David Feintuch

“Every time we burn a fossil fuel, we’re releasing the energy of sunlight stored millions of years ago.”
― David Feintuch, Patriarch's Hope

“If peasants weren’t so lazy they could afford proper attire.”
― David Feintuch, The Still

“You make trannie yet, joey.” I”
― David Feintuch, Voices of Hope

“I was no freethinker, and such matters were beyond me.”
― David Feintuch, Fisherman's Hope

“But by swearing fealty ... you gave me everything.”
“I saw you need it.”
My scorn dripped. “This afternoon, by my shame?”
“No, my lord. Tonight, by your fear.” He sighed. “Now, perhaps, you can allow yourself a friend.”
― David Feintuch, The Still

“Life, I’ve learned, is not an affair of joy.”
― David Feintuch, The King

“On long trek after Peetee hung caller, I concluded there was nothin’ more I could do but play out game of death. Maybe, somehow, I’d earn us time. Time”
― David Feintuch, Voices of Hope