Quotes from Jack Higgins

She was aware that she was close to tears and her stomach was hollow with excitement, throat dry. Coup de foudre , the French called it. The thunderclap. The best kind of love of all. Instant and quite irrevocable

My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.

Let's hope that when you're coming down I'll be looking up.

The trouble with life is that the moment someone tells you something is impossible, someone else promptly proves that it isn't

If there's one thing I've learned in my short and unhappy life it's never to expect anything and to be particularly suspicious of that which is apparently served up on a plate.

Sister Katherine smiled. 'Such arrogance. You did not choose God, Maria. He chose you. For you, as his servant, there is no such thing as choice. You must do what is right. You may do no other.

think the great American public would be pleased.

tried to straighten it. "I must look a mess," she said and smiled.

The PIRA were clients, and their money was good, which was all that mattered, for he was never a man to make judgments. Sitting opposite

And if it doesn't go like that? – Then all your problems will be over and you won't have a thing to worry.

Not me, girl dear, not me in the whole wide world. You need a man…I'm just a corpse walking.

In wartime, everyone loves a soldier, and a wounded hero even more so.

A world at war is crazy enough for anything to be believable.

International terrorism needs money to keep going," Villiers said. "A great deal of money, not only for arms, which are expensive, but to fund operations. Drugs are a ready source of that kind of money

THERE IS an old saying that in Belfast it rains five days out

mind and went

A raving loony. She must be," Billy

were not too important, mostly minor attachés of one kind or another; the big fish were either in Brussels already or on the way

You mean the nobility of war, sir? The strength of our purpose and all that crap? I'm afraid I don't buy that either. The way I figure it, every day for the past 10,000 years, someone, somewhere in the world has been beating hell out of someone else. I think it's in the nature of the species.