22 Quotes by C.S. Harris

What the bloody hell is wrong with us? What kind of society turns its back on the neediest amongst them? They call themselves Christians. They smugly go to church every Sunday and pat themselves on the back for being so damn holy. And then they allow this?

Life is full of scary things,” he used to tell Kat. “The trick is not to let your fears get in the way of your living. Whatever else you do, Katherine, don’t settle for a life half-lived.

The war had taught us so many things: how to spin wool and weave cloth; how to fashion our own shoes from old saddle leather and sturdy canvas; how to plow fields and mend fences. Now it had taught us to kill, and how to protect ourselves from the consequences of those killings with a grim purposefulness that would have been unimaginable even a year before.

Sometimes he wondered if most people experienced the world around them a little bit differently from their fellows, if the assumption of commonality was simply an illusion.

When one lived a life that was, essentially, a lie, appearances were everything.

Religion is important to the order of society. It reconciles the lower classes to their lot in life and teaches them to respect their betters.

I’ve never attended a Quaker service before.” “We believe that true religion is a personal encounter with God rather than a matter of ritual and ceremony, and that all aspects of life are sacramental. Therefore, no one day or place or activity is any more spiritual than any other. But we gather together at such times to discover in stillness a deeper sense of God’s presence.

Love. I think an angel would fear falling in love with a mortal – someone who could be theirs for only a short time and then would slip away forever.” He.

Murder is unseemly. Making certain a killer doesn’t get away with what he has done is an obligation we the living owe to the dead – no matter how unsavory we consider them to be.