Quotes from Pat Frank

If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.

I don't want money. What the hell's money good for? You can't drive it and you can't eat it and it won't even fix a flat.

I love you. I worn' about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished and afraid when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here." His

The bell announced that there was food on the table and a women in the kitchen.

But he is dying faster than he should. The better a man is at business, the worse in retirement.

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

When he reached the last hole he saw, far to the west, a series of rockets bloom in the sky. He watched their green and yellow and red petals arch across the horizon, and fade into the gloom of the earth. It was very beautiful, but he recognized them for Chinese rockets.

There's an old saying that anyone can make colonel on his own, but it takes a wife to make a general.

Throughout the following era, while we struggled with our institutions, with one another, and with our own moral flaws, one of the things that kept many of us going was a sense of privilege. Only the very fortunate get to struggle. Only the living may improve.

The house was still as northern woods in winter, when all the creatures are gone.

The only bad parts of it were cooking for one and eating alone.

His ears were attuned for the steady firing of Couzens' heavy machine guns, which he knew should now commence, and the thud of his carefully sited mortars, but he did not hear them and he realized, suddenly and sickeningly, that the Chinese had not attacked across the spit of land. They were pouring across the ice, and had taken Dog Company in the rear.

He knew he should not have spared time for tears, and would not, ever again.

There is a new crisis in the Middle East. A report from Beirut, via Cairo, says that Syrian tanks of the most modern Russian design have crossed the Jordanian frontier. This is undoubtedly a threat to Israel. At the same time Damascus charges that Turkish troops are mobilizing…." Florence

If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man. He remembered words which for four months he had not heard, read, or uttered, the most beautiful words in the language - faith and hope.

When a man dies, and his children die with him, then he is dead entirely, leaving nothing to show.

Randy felt relieved. He looked out over the river, contemplating his ignorance of women and the peace of evening.

You react to crisis the right way. You remember what Toynbee says? His theory of challenge and response applies not only to nations, but to individuals. Some nations and some people melt in the heat of crisis and come apart like fat in the pan. Others meet the challenge and harden. I think you're going to harden.

I love you. I worry about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished . . . when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here.

If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.

Legs are for men's pleasure, breasts are for babies'.' " - Lib McGovern

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

I think you ought to go to New York or Chicago or San Francisco or any city with character and vitality. You should go to work. This place is no good for you, Randy. The air is like soup and the people are like noodles. You're vegetating. I don't want a vegetable. I want a man.' " - Lib McGovern

The white flashed back into a red ball in the southeast. They all knew what it was. It was Orlando, or McCoy Base, or both. It was the power supply for Timucuan County. Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years. So ended The Day.