12 Quotes by Robert Masello

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

People are always doing things for my sake and strangely enough, I'm the one who suffers for it.

If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe after another, then the people might shake themselves awake from the trance they were in and begin to question the very men who had drenched their streets in blood and make France pariah among the civilized nations of the world.

Lucifer – Pride Mammon – Avarice Asmodeus – Lechery Satan – Anger Beelzebub – Gluttony Leviathan – Envy Belphegor – Sloth.

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth – rocks.

The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were intentional. But that was a lesson nobody ever seemed to learn. Maybe.

I want you to stay with me.” “So do I.” “Is that what you said in Arabic?” “It was close,” she said. He waited for the rest. “It’s just an old Bedouin saying.” “Give me the rough translation.” “I would not trade you for a thousand goats.” Lucas laughed.

Keep your voice down!’ I warned. ‘The house is asleep.’ ‘Come quick,’ he repeated, though in a lower tone. ‘And bring gun.’ ‘Why?

The soul,” he’d said one night by a campfire in the Valley of the Kings, “is like a falcon. Despite its loyalty to the falconer, it longs to fly free. When my time comes, let my soul soar into the wind and the sky. Wherever its natural home is meant to be, that’s where it will go.