Quotes from Stephen Gallagher

The man waxed his mustache. In Sebastian's book, that was never a good sign.

Sebastian tried not to look too far ahead. Ambition was a young man's game. Theses days he was more concerned with the continuing survival and security of those he loved. It was no longer so much a matter of dreaming how high he might climb, as of always keeping in mind how far they might fall.

Call it a private demonstration of the fistic arts.

I doubt that he even considered that," Sebastian said. "His obsession is his entire horizon.

It was here that Euday caught up with her. He said, "You notice the graves all face to the east?" She hadn't, but they did. She said, "What's the reason for that?" "So their spirits could fly home to Africa.

Miss D'Alroy, you could charm a dog off of a butcher's wagon. I can't imagine the manager who'd turn you away.

Tell your troubles to a man, and to the best of his ability he'd advise you how to fix them. Complain at that, and you'd bewilder him. Why seek advice, only in order to reject it? What, otherwise, could have been the point of the conversation?

Faith," Bram Stoker once said, "is to be found more often in a theater than in a church.

Learn subtlety, James," he said. "It is perfectly possible to destroy something innocent, yet leave no public mark.

You should have said where fact ends and fantasy begins. If that's what you wanted to know." "Isn't it the same thing?" "No, it's not. Mother's like a spring flower. That's not strictly a fact. But it is true.