Jon Land > Quotes

“Shit travels a long way, but wherever it lands it smells the same. - Colonel Franklin Brickland”
― Jon Land, The Walls of Jericho

“Sometimes you had to accept the impossible,
because nothing else made any sense.”
― Jon Land, Strong to the Bone

“Death had come to be treated too often like lost points in a video game.”
― Jon Land, The Tenth Circle

“A day older than yesterday, a day younger than tomorrow. Beyond that, I don’t think much about it.”
― Jon Land, Pandora's Temple

“I once asked her why that was so important to her, why she’d dedicated her entire life to helping those who couldn’t help themselves. “‘It’s simple,’” she told me. “‘Because I never would have gotten anywhere if people weren’t there to help me. And no one ever told me I couldn’t achieve my dreams if I worked hard enough. Yet there were so many without dreams, or who’d had their dreams dashed. I want to give their dreams back to them,’ she said. ‘I want to give them hope.”
― Jon Land, Murder on the Metro

“Age is an issue of mind over matter,” Brixton recalled. “If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
― Jon Land, Murder on the Metro

“Lobbyists used to operate by getting you to believe in what they were pushing. Now they operate by scaring you into wondering what will happen if you don’t. Politics has become a job for the weak-minded and thin-skinned among us. The only principles these people know are the ones they’re paid to have.”
― Jon Land, Murder on the Metro

“One grandparent saving another, she’d said, or some version of that. What was it Mark Twain had said about age? Something like “Age is an issue of mind over matter,” Brixton recalled. “If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
― Jon Land, Murder on the Metro

“To tell any of the story, we have to tell all of it,” Mac offered, by way of explanation, “lest we risk putting the country in front of another set of crosshairs down the line. In other words, an example must be set that this is a country of laws and procedures, both written and otherwise. We don’t want to tear this country apart figuratively after so narrowly escaping having that happen literally, but at the same time, we must ensure the truth comes out on our terms instead of its own.”
― Jon Land, Murder on the Metro