Quotes from Colin Falconer

LIBERAL, n. A man with his mind open at both ends.

He taught that everything is transient, that happiness and youth can never last, that all life is suffering, and we are trapped by an endless cycle of birth and rebirth. If you have a good life, your next life will be better. If you do bad things, you will return next as a beggar, or a beast of burden perhaps. But only by giving up all desire can you escape the endless wheel and reach heaven.

They say he goes to it with every stable boy and every young buck at the court, and where will that get him when all know it is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, and one day the devil will stick a red-hot poker up his nether parts for all damnation.

Empires are built and will crumble; even Genghis Khan did not live forever.

O my God, Ludovici thought. Love and rebellion. A potent mixture. Enough to blind him to common sense.

Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.

She'd been in America almost three years now, but she still wasn't used to it, the same language sure, but they had different words for everything; she'd learned that a scone was a biscuit, that sidewalk meant a pavement, and that autumn was fall.

here in a place as far from God as one can go and still freeze.

quite the same thing. It is like an overwhelming clamour on the senses. 'Jenao

They say women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake a whole relationship.

Tom, you couldn't punch the froth off a Guinness.

Telling you and putting it on the front pages of the newspapers is just about the same thing!

They remove to York, that cold and godless place, where not even the devil could get warm.

We make such plans for our lives, she thinks, and this is the way they turn out, nothing like what we imagine.

History tells us that revolution is not an isolated event because it is not about overthrowing governments, it is about spreading new ideas.

If today brings no hope we should plan for tomorrow.

An enemy never seems quite as formidable when he is whimpering in chains, so that you forget how he looked sneering at you when you were miserable

He will see that I am no coward. If he will call for rain then I will give him a tempest.

What good is religion without magic?

I've drunk French champagne in a speakeasy and water out of a horse trough in Poland, and the thing that matters is not what I'm drinking but who I'm drinking with.

A woman, though she is a queen, is meant by God to be instructed by her husband." It is the bishop of Orange who says this, and she smiles and imagines cleaving him with a sword, right through his skull to his breastbone

What a place, George thought. Greasy, grim and ripe for murder.

and may your stalk turn into a chicken and eat your testicles a peck at a time!

They found him in the cloister, lying on his back with ice in his beard. He was half conscious, muttering about a Templar knight, a secret commission from the Pope, and a beautiful woman on a white pony.