Ross Montgomery > Quotes

“Still, if we wept for every woman who suffered, we’d never stop weeping, would we?”
― Ross Montgomery, The Murder at World's End

“There's always something we don't know anything about." she said. "More than we like to admit. The more we discover, the more we realize we don't fully understand. Our world, our solar system, the universe... it all adds up. I mean, when you think about it-- do we even know that much about ourselves?”
― Ross Montgomery, Perijee & Me

“The success of a servant depends upon his or her ability to be invisible. To be as integral, and yet as indiscernible, as the furniture. To appear only when required, speak only when addressed, and otherwise draw no attention to their presence whatsoever.”
― Ross Montgomery, The Murder at World's End

“Stephen, I did not spend seventy-five years waiting for the comet to return so I could spend all night gazing at a sheet of fucking paper. Do as I say, please.”
― Ross Montgomery, The Murder at World's End

“Nan had always said that no amount of money can stop a stupid person being stupid, and I was beginning to see what she meant.”
― Ross Montgomery, The Murder at World's End

“Sadly, my nephew is one of those men who thinks that disagreeing with established thought is a prerequisite of genius. People listen to him because he is rich and has the great fortune to have been born a man. Tomorrow morning, when the world is still very much here, he will somehow turn his failures into further confirmation of his theories.”
― Ross Montgomery, The Murder at World's End

“It was as bright as the point of a needle, the tail streaking behind it like long strands of soft hair, surrounded by stars and clear as anything. Out here, in the middle of nowhere, you could see every star that God had ever made.”
― Ross Montgomery, The Murder at World's End