10 Quotes by K.M. Mayville

Maybe peace is just moments… Maybe peace is just a second or an eon or a decade or a day. War is… the same, I think.

All good ideas come to people on toilets, I like to think.

I trust you won’t make a run for it as long as I’m here.” Emil laughed. “Is that what they told you when they assigned you as my handler? That I’m docile and friendly? That I’m cooperative and pleasant to be around? That if I wanted you dead, you’d already be dead? That’s a little too much faith put in government employees, if you ask me.

It wasn’t often they surprised each other, but when it happened, it sent a little thrill of passion through her. Two-thousand years and he still managed to be the best thing to have ever happened to her. He simply asked for her best in return.

Dearheart, trying to read you is like trying to recite Shakespeare off the backside of a galloping horse.

If he left, he’d be taking two centuries of wasted effort with him. Who would be able to put out the fire of her anger once it was an inferno? No one but him.

All dead fathers seem to have been good men.

You make war a jest... and send our son as its punchline.

Maybe by making up his own history, he could make the tragedy of it all make sense. Maybe he could write reason into it.