John Saul > Quotes

“The country would be far better if the population were half as interested in keeping their minds in as good condition as they tried to keep their bodies.”
― John Saul

“If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom.”
― John Saul, Perfect Nightmare

“Time is always relative.... For the terminally ill, six months are a lifetime, and not a very long one. To a three-year-old waiting for Christmas, it's an eternity so distant it's not even worth thinking about.”
― John Saul

“Doubt is thus the space between reality and the application of an idea. It ought to be given over to the weighing of experience, intuition, creativity, ethics, common sense, reason and, of course, knowledge, in balanced consideration of what is to be done. The longer this stage lasts the more we take advantage of our intelligence.”
― John Saul

“Until lunchtime, he'd had no idea, really, what love was, but now he knew.
It made you happy, and it made you want to dance, and it made you feel funny.
But most of all, you knew you had someone you could trust.
Someone you could tell everything to. Absolutely everything.”
― John Saul, House of Reckoning

“You know what you have to do, Matthew." Darkness began to close around him, until all he could see was the head ot the deer. The deer and something beyond... "Do it Matthew," the voice whisperd. "Do it for me...”
― John Saul, Nightshade

“She stood a little straighter, closed her eyes, and raised her arms in embrace of her final act.

The she took a deep breath and dove, headfirst--face-first--into oblivion”
― John Saul, Faces of Fear

“What it would be like to simply disappear into the blackness, to float forever in silence and nothingness.”
― John Saul, Black Creek Crossing

“The silence of the building closed around him like a shroud.”
― John Saul, Shadows

“The terrible dark, where nothing, not even time itself, existed.”
― John Saul, Midnight Voices

“Making someone die, he was suddenly sure, was different from killing them. He could never kill anyone. But he could make someone die.”
― John Saul, Nathaniel

“Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh?”
― John Saul, Hellfire

“She felt that she'd been watching a shadow. A shadow of the dead.”
― John Saul, Shadows

“All I want is to be left alone. That’s why I have that fence. It’s not only to keep the critters in. It’s to keep people out.”
― John Saul, Nathaniel

“A Connally! Always remember that I raised you to be a Connally!”
― John Saul, The Blackstone Chronicles: The Serial Thriller Complete in One Volume

“You love her, even if you don’t believe you do. You’re used to her, and a lot of love is nothing more than habit.”
― John Saul, Suffer the Children

“It had been no more than three minutes since she had awakened, laughing quietly, from her dream. Now the quiet laughter was over, and Polly MacIver was dead.”
― John Saul, Second Child

“He was my father, darling, but I have to confess I didn’t like him very much.”
― John Saul, Hellfire

“This’s a citizens’ meeting,” Forager sneered. “Not a council meeting. Nobody’s gonna run it.” “I see,” Norton said, standing up. He was pleased to note that Forager moved back another pace. “In that case, you can count on me showing up. I always wanted to see a meeting nobody was running. It ought to be fascinating.”
― John Saul, Suffer the Children

“Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.”
― John Saul

“Collins rewound the tape a few feet, then”
― John Saul, Creature

“They simply have a different standard of normality. And when you look at the state of the world, who’s really to say they’re wrong?”
― John Saul, Suffer the Children

“The mind tended to attach priorities to things, Dr. Belter knew, and often much could be learned not from the points being made, but from the order of the points and their relative importance to the person making them.”
― John Saul, Suffer the Children

“Ar fi trebuit să fiu altceva, ceva ce nu simte nici un fel de durere. La noapte, reflectă el, fremătând de anticipație, voi fugi de durere. Și nu mă voi mai întoarce niciodată.”
― John Saul, Shadows

“There’s a lot of people around here, me included, who think she talked him into an early grave, and that he wasn’t the least bit sorry to go.”
― John Saul, Nathaniel

“After his morning at Rocky Mountain High, Mark was almost like the town itself. Perfect. Too perfect.”
― John Saul, Creature

“Indiferent ce mască își punea pe față, nu exista vreo cale de a cicatriza rana sângerândă din ea, nu exista vreo modalitate de a alina durerea care îi măcina sufletul.”
― John Saul, Shadows

“Often we find that the things our conscious minds refuse to take seriously our subconscious minds deal with in a very serious manner. Essentially, that is what dreams are all about, and, sometimes, neuroses and psychoses. One might say that mental illness results when our conscious minds and our unconscious minds try to do each other’s jobs.”
― John Saul, Suffer the Children

“If someone believes strongly enough that something will happen, it will, in all likelihood, happen.”
― John Saul, Suffer the Children