Mark Ellis > Quotes

“Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was not used to feeling intimidated. It was rather his job in life to intimidate others.”
― Mark Ellis, Stalin's Gold

“Americans don’t like a quitter.”
― Mark Ellis, A Death on The Horizon

“leftist threats of redistribution had installed him as potentate redux, a starched-collar exemplar in the face of socialism’s hectoring witch.”
― Mark Ellis, A Death on The Horizon

“monorails writhing like phosphorescent vipers.”
― Mark Ellis, A Death on The Horizon

“an immense sea turtle, his forehead still sharp and intelligent but his jowls and throat gone froggy,”
― Mark Ellis, A Death on The Horizon

“her lipstick was formaldehyde amber.”
― Mark Ellis, A Death on The Horizon

“When the terrorists come, and they will come, given the human cost Bush policies have exacted in the Middle East, it will be because we have identified exclusively with the Israelis and written off a great swarm of human suffering.”
― Mark Ellis, A Death on The Horizon

“their wandering rants radiating an aural penumbra of sane truth.”
― Mark Ellis, A Death on The Horizon

“had detected desperation in Sharpe’s broadcasts of late. With all branches of government now seated on the left, Sharpe and his corps of angry white microphone jocks could be reliably cast as the whining remnants of a bygone era.”
― Mark Ellis, A Death on The Horizon

“Let other poets raise a fracas Bout vines, an’ wines, an’ drucken Bacchus, An’ crabbit names an’ stories wrack us, An’ grate our lug: I sing the juice Scotch bear can mak us, In glass or jug.” Evans smiled at Stewart in confusion. “Burns on scotch, Mr Evans. A very fine poet and a very fine drink.”
― Mark Ellis, Stalin's Gold

“Numbers were catching up with the GOP. In time, with enough people of color, have-nots, single women, liberal urban men, and members of the LBGT bloc voting, the center-right paradigm would become center-left.”
― Mark Ellis, A Death on The Horizon

“Wearing pantsuits and respectably hemmed skirts of every imaginable pastel, she had verified, cross-checked, and researched her way into mediocrity”
― Mark Ellis, A Death on The Horizon

“It was a slap-splash, a fleshy belly-flop sound, like the fin of something large in these waters, surfacing briefly to wave at the stars.”
― Mark Ellis, A Death on The Horizon

“This alter-electorate was prepared to exact not revenge but absorption. It was a swallowing of the conservative beast with a maw of injustice, disparity, and want. They were over, the white conservatives, this ghost ship notwithstanding,”
― Mark Ellis, A Death on The Horizon