Quotes from John Saul

The country would be far better if the population were half as interested in keeping their minds in as good condition as they tried to keep their bodies.

Time is always relative.... For the terminally ill, six months are a lifetime, and not a very long one. To a three-year-old waiting for Christmas, it's an eternity so distant it's not even worth thinking about.

If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom.

Doubt is thus the space between reality and the application of an idea. It ought to be given over to the weighing of experience, intuition, creativity, ethics, common sense, reason and, of course, knowledge, in balanced consideration of what is to be done. The longer this stage lasts the more we take advantage of our intelligence.

You know what you have to do, Matthew." Darkness began to close around him, until all he could see was the head ot the deer. The deer and something beyond... "Do it Matthew," the voice whisperd. "Do it for me...

She stood a little straighter, closed her eyes, and raised her arms in embrace of her final act. The she took a deep breath and dove, headfirst--face-first--into oblivion

Until lunchtime, he'd had no idea, really, what love was, but now he knew. It made you happy, and it made you want to dance, and it made you feel funny. But most of all, you knew you had someone you could trust. Someone you could tell everything to. Absolutely everything.

What it would be like to simply disappear into the blackness, to float forever in silence and nothingness.

The silence of the building closed around him like a shroud.

The terrible dark, where nothing, not even time itself, existed.

It had been no more than three minutes since she had awakened, laughing quietly, from her dream. Now the quiet laughter was over, and Polly MacIver was dead.

Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh?

She felt that she'd been watching a shadow. A shadow of the dead.

A Connally! Always remember that I raised you to be a Connally!

You love her, even if you don't believe you do. You're used to her, and a lot of love is nothing more than habit.

Making someone die, he was suddenly sure, was different from killing them. He could never kill anyone. But he could make someone die.

There's a lot of people around here, me included, who think she talked him into an early grave, and that he wasn't the least bit sorry to go.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

Indiferent ce masc? îÈ™i punea pe fa??, nu exista vreo cale de a cicatriza rana sângerând? din ea, nu exista vreo modalitate de a alina durerea care îi m?cina sufletul.

Ar fi trebuit s? fiu altceva, ceva ce nu simte nici un fel de durere. La noapte, reflect? el, frem?tând de anticipaÈ›ie, voi fugi de durere. ?i nu m? voi mai întoarce niciodat?.

All I want is to be left alone. That's why I have that fence. It's not only to keep the critters in. It's to keep people out.