Alex Lukeman > Quotes

“Courage is accepting your fear and doing whatever needs to be done anyway. Cowards are people who can't face up to their fear and let it get the better of them. There's always a place for courage. There's always something that can be done. You might not see it right away. Sooner or later something comes to mind that can help you through it. You make up your mind that it's okay to be afraid and you are going to be all right. Then you do what has to be done. That's courage.”
― Alex Lukeman, The Lance

“How the hell do you compromise with people who are trying to conquer your country? It was two thousand years ago. What's the point of trying to change history? You can't judge the past by the present." "That's what historical revisionists want to do," Nick said. "They can't change what happened, but they can try to change the way people think about it. It's a classic propaganda tool. They manipulate history to advance their agenda, whatever it is. After a while they only tell people the interpretation they want them to know and nobody knows the difference. They don't care about the truth. What matters is changing the interpretation to influence the present.”
― Alex Lukeman, Solomon's Gold

“Think like the enemy, Steph thought. If I'm running ISIS, what do I want to do? What do I want to accomplish? The answer didn't require much thought. Annihilate the infidel and raise the black flag over the entire world. Islamic fanaticism had only one goal in mind. Stephanie couldn't believe there were still people who refused to see the reality of that goal and acknowledge the hatred aimed at achieving it. But then again, reality had never been popular if it conflicted with belief. In this case, far too many people wanted to believe only in the positive aspects of Islam without looking at its dark side. All they had to do was study history to see that the cancerous aberration of ISIS was nothing new. Annihilate”
― Alex Lukeman, The Cup

“We have beams that can make people sick or kill them with microwaves.”
― Alex Lukeman, The Ajax Protocol

“Elizabeth Harker looked up from behind her desk. She was small, with milk-white skin, small, pointed ears and raven black hair. Her eyes were like a cat's, wide and green. She looked like an elf dressed in black and white, but a kind of elf you wouldn't want to mess with.”
― Alex Lukeman, White Jade

“That's really cynical," Selena said. "I think it's realistic. You can see it happening at home. Look what Rivka just said about Masada. It's a national symbol, but what it means is being changed from a story of heroism to a story of misguided resistance to authority. It's subtle, but revisionism is a way to undermine belief in a strong nation. No country gets it right all the time. If you start condemning your history, you can't believe in your country. If you don't believe in it, you won't fight for it.”
― Alex Lukeman, Solomon's Gold

“the inconvenience she represented.”
― Alex Lukeman, Black Harvest

“get”
― Alex Lukeman, The Cup

“Yeah, like that old Chinese curse about living in interesting times. Interesting times meant the barbarians were about to ride over your fields and kill you and your family.”
― Alex Lukeman, The Solomon Scroll

“agent”
― Alex Lukeman, The Seventh Pillar

“below. After the war had been won by Germany, it was supposed to become a shrine. There is a central circle with provision for an "eternal flame" in the center,”
― Alex Lukeman, The Lance

“If the alliance fell apart, years of careful planning and difficult political negotiations with Russia's strange bedfellows would be wasted.”
― Alex Lukeman, Black Rose

“He had taken to wearing prescription glasses with tinted lenses and round gold frames. He thought they leant a distinguished look, rather like a professor or doctor. In truth, the glasses made him look like a malevolent Ghandhi.”
― Alex Lukeman, Black Rose

“Na Zdrov'nya,”
― Alex Lukeman, The Tesla Secret

“the radio silence. "Shit," he said.”
― Alex Lukeman, The Eye of Shiva

“The terrorist organizations were an enemy with philosophies of political and religious fanaticism leaving no room for compromise or peace. As far as Elizabeth was concerned, the world would be a better place if they were all destroyed. If”
― Alex Lukeman, White Jade

“People usually define family by blood ties but I don't see it that way. I think family are the people you can rely on, the people you know who will back you up when you need it. People who can rely on you.”
― Alex Lukeman, Black Rose