Historical Thriller Quotes

“Books are keys that open many doors.”
― James Rollins

“In Hebrew, the word “Jerusalem” meant City of Peace. Never was any metropolis on earth more inappropriately named.”
― N.S. Wikarski, The Arkana Mysteries: Omnibus Three: Books 6-8

“This tiny patch of rocky ground took up an immense amount of space in the minds of millions of people, as it had for millennia.”
― N.S. Wikarski, The Arkana Mysteries: Omnibus Three: Books 6-8

“Sporadically cars drove past him, their drivers groping their way through the treacly darkness with blinkered headlights.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

“Poland would rise again like a phoenix from the ashes.”
― Mark Ellis, In the Shadows of the Blitz: A deeply captivating classic crime thriller

“It was good to be alive!”
― Mark Ellis, In the Shadows of the Blitz: A deeply captivating classic crime thriller

“I am a survivor and will remain one.”
― Mark Ellis, In the Shadows of the Blitz: A deeply captivating classic crime thriller

“The sad part isn’t getting over a loss. It’s far sadder to try to cling to something that’s gone.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

“Tel Aviv and its metro area were a scant 40 miles away from Jerusalem. Only forty miles and three thousand years divided them.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

“The women of Republican times are silent. Rarely calling for comment in the history books, they are named on tombstones, flit in arrogant beauty through poetry, or appear even as monsters of iniquity in a court of law. Yet they themselves do not speak and they have left no literature of any sort of their own. In this book, however, Roman women live and love and hate anything but silently. (author's note To the Reader in 'A Roman Death'.)”
― Joan O'Hagan

“She sometimes wondered where her youth had vanished to. Inside she didn't feel like the aged lady that looked back at her from the cracked mirror.”
― Mary Kendall

“What a place, George thought. Greasy, grim and ripe for murder.”
― Colin Falconer, Lord of the Atlas

“We financed politicians because they were friendly to our cause and would facilitate our projects.”
― Chikodi Anunobi, The Thief and the Patriot

“A minimum of two years in prison should be a prerequisite for going into politics.”
― Chikodi Anunobi, The Thief and the Patriot

“We can always bribe them, that’s what we do in this country.”
― Chikodi Anunobi, The Thief and the Patriot

“Clearly it is simplest never to marry at all,’ I said, trying to keep my voice light. These stories, ridiculous fairy tales though they were, had tainted the evening. Like Vivian, I preferred to think of The Sleeping Princess as a magical spectacle of fairy godmothers and characters from folklore. But then we had both learned the hard way about heartbreak and loss.”
― Lucy Ashe, The Sleeping Beauties

“He had created a son—not in a conventional manner, nor one a DNA test would confirm, but certainly in the most important sense. He wondered where the boy was now and what he was doing, the product of biological alchemy and the man’s greatest and most secret success.”
― Dee A. Replogle, Jr.

“The Kalends are for men with credit, Decimius.’ Julius wiped a speck of dust from his pristine tunic. ‘My patron is a man of numbers, not mercy. The ledger must balance. If I return light, he becomes… difficult. And I have a habit of passing that difficulty on.”
― Marc Flanagan, A Slave's Vengeance

“Through Torah we learn the King’s edicts. But mystics seek more than law. They seek what Moses longed for--to see the face of the King. Through what is called the sefirot they believe they can. Mysticism confronts us with a veil that paradoxically conceals and reveals reality. The mystic is the one who studies and practices striving to grasp what lies beyond. That is Kabbalah. That is your cousin, Akiva. He wants to see the face of God.”
― Robert Pajer from the Novel Stolen Light