James Conroyd Martin > Quotes

“What is past, one cannot change,
so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.”
― James Conroyd Martin, Push Not the River

“Wherever you go, you can never leave yourself behind.”
― James Conroyd Martin

“Sometimes you must put yourself in the way of destiny.”
― James Conroyd Martin

“If there is no wind, you must learn to row.   —Polish Proverb”
― James Conroyd Martin, Push Not the River

“Life is like the moon— now dark, now full.   —Polish Proverb”
― James Conroyd Martin, Push Not the River

“Follow your heart. Indulge your whims. They are usually correct. And when they are not, do not allow the world to judge you overly much.”
― James Conroyd Martin, Push Not the River

“Wherever you go, you can never leave yourself behind.   —Polish Proverb”
― James Conroyd Martin, Push Not the River

“Push not the river; it will flow on its own accord.   —Polish Proverb”
― James Conroyd Martin, Push Not the River

“A liar can go around the world, but can never come back.”
― James Conroyd Martin

“There are three things that are difficult to keep hidden: a fire, a cold, and love.   —Polish Proverb”
― James Conroyd Martin, Push Not the River

“Through bravery you may win a war, and through bravery you may lose.
-Polish Proverb”
― James Conroyd Martin

“No man knows courage,” his father had told him, “who has not known fear.”
― James Conroyd Martin, Push Not the River

“She would say that what is past, one cannot change, so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.”
― James Conroyd Martin

“The roots of learning are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.   —Polish Proverb”
― James Conroyd Martin, Push Not the River

“There's no key to the woods and fields.”
― James Conroyd Martin, Push Not the River

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us “Universe”—a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Albert Einstein”
― James Conroyd Martin, Hologram: A Haunting

“Few Polish citizens left on the Praga side of the River Vistula were allowed to live. The burning of the bridge was fortuitous, however, for the Russians were held at bay, allowing the night to cool their red rage. In the morning, the English ambassador to Poland and the Papal Nuncio crossed the river and secured from Suvorov assurance that the capital would be taken peacefully.”
― James Conroyd Martin, Push Not the River

“A child, she reasoned, does not pick its parents nor the circumstances of its birth. A”
― James Conroyd Martin, Push Not the River

“There’s no key to the woods and fields.”
― James Conroyd Martin, The Poland Trilogy: Push Not the River; Against a Crimson Sky; The Warsaw Conspiracy

“1683 he aided the legendary King Jan Sobieski and much of Christian Europe in keeping Vienna—and therefore Eastern Europe—from the Turks.”
― James Conroyd Martin, The Poland Trilogy: Push Not the River; Against a Crimson Sky; The Warsaw Conspiracy

“Jurata, Queen of the Baltic.”
― James Conroyd Martin, The Poland Trilogy: Push Not the River; Against a Crimson Sky; The Warsaw Conspiracy

“thought, the theory of the holotropic mind and the”
― James Conroyd Martin, Hologram: A Haunting

“There are three things that are difficult to keep hidden: a fire, a cold, and love. —Polish Proverb”
― James Conroyd Martin, The Poland Trilogy: Push Not the River; Against a Crimson Sky; The Warsaw Conspiracy

“and wife are two windows, each letting light into a home, light that seamlessly blends, brightening and sanctifying the marriage”
― James Conroyd Martin, Against a Crimson Sky (Compelling and Thrillingly Paced Historical Fiction)