Marc Hartzman > Quotes

“had I been able to speak, it would have afforded me a chance to help him understand God’s ways and set him on a proper path. Instead, I rested upon the man’s cold, dry hand; his blasphemy had invited a thin layer of death to creep upon him. For it was clear that a part of his soul was already dead.”
― Marc Hartzman, The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir

“Thunderstorms oft spurred these sorts of suppositions. “Maybe God is bursting with tears and he’s flickering lights in His invisible bedroom”
― Marc Hartzman, The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir

“Cromwell was a man who believed in the will of God and the power of an idea.”
― Marc Hartzman, The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir

“His history will henceforth be known as I craft it. Is this not the manner in which all history is recorded? It is written, and it is so.”
― Marc Hartzman, The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir

“Surely such phantoms could rap and knock upon the tables of German military personnel, scattering schemes as they plotted, and thenceforth frightening them into submission without further need for bloodshed.”
― Marc Hartzman, The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir

“I have saved many young girls from marrying the wrong man and have kept others from going wrong,” she announced. “My religion goes back to Jesus Christ. Houdini does not know I am a Christian.” “Jesus was a Jew,” Houdini shot back, “and he did not charge two dollars a visit.”
― Marc Hartzman, Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural

“Dear Heart, press on; let not Husband, let not anything cool thy affections after Christ. I hope he will be an occasion to inflame them. That which is best worthy of love in thy Husband is that of the image of Christ he bears. Look on that, and love it best, and all the rest for that. I pray for thee and him; do so for me.”
― Marc Hartzman, The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir