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“...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat.
[Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]”
― The Magician
[Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]”
― The Magician
“He wanted that which had been so fleeting to become solid. The only way he knew to make this happen was to write it down. Should he have let it pass so that it would have faded completely, this, the story of his life?”
― The Magician
― The Magician
“There were days when he thought of a book and could see where it might be found in his study. Not being able to take it down and open it came to him with sadness but also, at times, with panic.”
― The Magician
― The Magician
“Wrong place,” Reacher said. “Wrong time, wrong reasons, wrong methods, wrong approach, wrong leadership. No real backing, no real will to win, no coherent strategy.”
― Tripwire
― Tripwire
“He wanted to tell Golo, who was now thirty-two, that Elisabeth had declared that after the age of thirty no one had the right to blame their parents for anything. And then he could turn to Michael, who was twenty-two, and tell him that he had eight years left and he should use them wisely.”
― The Magician
― The Magician
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