Colin Falconer > Quotes

“Tom, you couldn’t punch the froth off a Guinness.”
― Colin Falconer, The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane

“They say women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake a whole relationship.”
― Colin Falconer, The Naked Husband

“We make such plans for our lives, she thinks, and this is the way they turn out, nothing like what we imagine.”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“He will see that I am no coward. If he will call for rain then I will give him a tempest.”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“If today brings no hope we should plan for tomorrow.”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“They say he goes to it with every stable boy and every young buck at the court, and where will that get him when all know it is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, and one day the devil will stick a red-hot poker up his nether parts for all damnation.”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“Our khan is not surprised that your lord extends his hand in friendship,’ the general said, ‘or he may find it cut off.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“tarbushes”
― Colin Falconer, Fury Book 2: Sleeping with the Enemy

“You have a god who makes you weak, then punishes you for your weakness. Do you not find that strange?”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“If he runs from the Mongols like everyone else, what use is he to us?”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“I’ve drunk French champagne in a speakeasy and water out of a horse trough in Poland, and the thing that matters is not what I’m drinking but who I’m drinking with.”
― Colin Falconer, The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane

“He taught that everything is transient, that happiness and youth can never last, that all life is suffering, and we are trapped by an endless cycle of birth and rebirth. If you have a good life, your next life will be better. If you do bad things, you will return next as a beggar, or a beast of burden perhaps. But only by giving up all desire can you escape the endless wheel and reach heaven.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“They”
― Colin Falconer, Colossus

“An enemy never seems quite as formidable when he is whimpering in chains, so that you forget how he looked sneering at you when you were miserable”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“Hell is not a place you go after you die, it’s the place you go when you’re born. That is why God cannot help us here, despite all our prayers, because this is the Devil’s realm.”
― Colin Falconer, Stigmata

“Heaven cannot grant permanence to anything so why do we seek it? Empires are built and will crumble. Even Genghis Khan did not live forever.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“The Place Where the Ass Died”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“Money itself is nothing. You can store it in a cave, piled to the roof, and you will not be any richer. The purpose of money is for making dreams and desires come true. Use it to strike down your enemies or to build your palace.”
― Colin Falconer, Lord of the Atlas

“History tells us that revolution is not an isolated event because it is not about overthrowing governments, it is about spreading new ideas.”
― Colin Falconer, The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane

“God chose Fabricia Bérenger during a lightning storm. With one thunderous touch of his finger, he sent her reeling.”
― Colin Falconer, Stigmata

“His fellow monks carried him back to his cell and laid him on the hard cot that had been his bed for the last twenty years. He was an old man now and there was nothing to be done. His eyes had the cold sheen of death. A brother went to fetch the abbot so that the old fellow might make his last confession.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.”
― Colin Falconer, The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane

“I was twenty-nine years old when I died.

Died; I use the term loosely. I was murdered, but within the dictates of the law and with the full approval of the king, even though he was barely eighteen years at the time.”
― Colin Falconer, A Vain and Indecent Woman

“The sea was as flat and as silver as the blade of a sword.”
― Colin Falconer, Harem: Historical adventure and intrigue in Ottoman Turkey

“When you visited the land of death, you didn’t come back straight away.”
― Colin Falconer, Fever Coast

“They found him in the cloister, lying on his back with ice in his beard. He was half conscious, muttering about a Templar knight, a secret commission from the Pope, and a beautiful woman on a white pony.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“quite the same thing. It is like an overwhelming clamour on the senses. 'Jenao”
― Colin Falconer, Anastasia

“The head had been impaled on a railing outside the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand in the early hours of a cold November morning. There was a fine dusting of frost on the corpse’s hair and eyelids which gave it a festive touch.”
― Colin Falconer, Cry Justice

“Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.”
― Colin Falconer, The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane

“At night, the spirits would whisper to her and sometimes transport her across the steppe.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road