263 Quotes by Mark Helprin

Truth is no rounder than a horse’s eye.

There’s something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It’s alive in a way that’s greater than any description of it...

And I love you.′ she said her heart buoyant. She really did love him, although each time she said it and he could not reply, she loved him perhaps a little less.

Many people just like to show that they’re thinking the right thoughts. And as the ‘right’ thoughts change like the wind, so do they.

My father ran London Films. He made films like ‘The Red Shoes,’ ‘The Third Man.’ And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

The abandoned stars were hers for the many rich hours of sparkling winter nights, and, unattended, she took them in like lovers.

Remember, what we are trying to do in this life is to shatter time and bring back the dead. Rise, Virginia. Rise and see the whole world.” Virginia.

Then occurred a rare thing about which men and women sometimes dream. They carried on a full conversation in complete silence, discerning feelings, plans, exclamations, jokes, opinions, laughter, and dreams- rapidly, silently, inexplicably.

When you’re in what seems like an impossible situation and it looks sure that you’re going to be overrun, you have to keep in mind that only half of what the enemy does is actually going to put him in a position to overrun you. The other half is to communicate this so you’ll do his work for him.