Quotes from Glenn Meade

I don't know that I'm afraid of anything anymore. Once you experience war you can never be the same. You see the world differently.

It's also not unknown for junior co-pilots of prime low fares carriers to sleep overnight in cars between duties.

There are many kinds of love, I think. There's passionate love, and there's dutiful love, though often we don't realize that really they're just different sides of the same coin." He pulled up his collar. "And then there's another kind of love. The kind we can only show by setting someone free.

Even the written evidence offered by the executioners tells us that. And it ended with Anastasia not being buried with the rest of her family." Yakov paused. "The DNA experts can speculate all they want, but they still can't say with absolute certainty that any of the bones later found belonged to her. I doubt they ever will." I felt dazed. "How can I know that your version of events is true?

In the beginning there was nothing, and then God created light. There was still nothing but you could see it a lot better.

the Dead Sea valley, at more than thirteen hundred feet below sea level, was tranquil. A desolate landscape, but strangely it was where Jack felt closest to God. Not that he was deeply religious. More spiritual.

In the words of one security expert, Johannes Beck, "There are always cracks in a suit of armor. A terrorist only has to succeed once but security or counter-terrorist agencies whose task it is to prevent the terrorists have to succeed all the time.

I'm suddenly beginning to wonder if all this war is worth it.

contrary to belief, airline pilots, unlike some helicopter pilots, do not practice ditching in water.

there is currently no simulator software for landing on water, and no real life training scenario in how to ditch a plane. To be fair, it would be a difficult situation to reproduce.

You, the passenger, sometimes fly with rookie pilots who are paying for the privilege of sitting in that seat.

the FAA, has a list of zones or states which are "unapproved." Airlines from those areas or states are forbidden from entering US airspace but, incredibly, the FAA will not specify the airlines, which is not much use to you, the fare-paying passenger, as you plan your travel abroad. The European agency, however, regularly updates the list and tells you outright the names of the companies they say are not up to standard.

I've heard it said that prayer is sometimes listening to yourself.

the infamous execution chamber—which was pretty small. Less than four yards by five. I found it incredible that up to twenty-two people were crowded into it for the shootings, half of them with guns blazing. I'm surprised many of the executioners weren't killed by ricochets.

Each and every airline is left to decide what is best for our children's safety, and the result should leave the public in no doubt that safety is not the main priority of many airlines. If it was, every child would have a safe and secure seat.

I wonder how many European passengers know that the aviation authorities say that passenger and crew health on board public transport airplanes is of no concern to them?

liars need to have good memories

In a famous seven-hundred-page judgment, a German court once concluded that there was no way the death of Anastasia could be conclusively proven.

Aircraft don't typically fall out of the sky.

the second coming we must prepare for is our own. I believe that all of us who take up the torch to carry light into the dark corners of the human heart are Christ returned, His second coming.

What was it Freud once said? All depression is caused by the loss of someone's love.

the complete fulfilment of the meaning of Christ's presence on earth. He planted the seeds and it is up to us to cultivate and gather the harvest, or else it will wither. "So from this day, we must decide not only our fate but our faith. Do we wish to be bureaucrats and remain behind these walls? To sit here and debate the finer points of theology while the sick are untended

Many of the characters named in this book existed, as did the shadowy order sometimes known as the Brotherhood of St. John of Tobolsk.

The rest, but a small part, is fiction, part of the mosaic of storytelling that a writer must employ to bring life to his tale. But as to which part is truth and which small part is fiction, I will leave that for you to decide.