Quotes from Graham Masterton

Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.

Well, good luck with that,' said Katie. 'I'd better get off home now. I'm starving. I could eat the lamb of Jesus through the rungs of a chair.

But I'm looking at life from the opposite end of the telescope from you, and everything that once seemed so grand and impressive has all shrunk down to size. I can see now what could have been, but wasn't, and I don't want you to get to my age and feel the same way.

almost fanatically, began to see another man, and although she still clung on to Williams for his money, it was quite obvious to him that she didn't love him

Iollan was one of the greatest of the Fianna, the ancient warriors who could visit the Invisible Kingdom whenever they wanted to.

Katie had visited Belfast many times before, but mostly to the city centre, for meetings with the Crime Operations Department, and she had forgotten how blatant the hostility still was between republicans and loyalists. UFF could almost have stood for Us? Forgive and Forget? Dunboyne

dormez bien.' They

The dead are more bloody desperate than we can even guess.

Katie walked slowly around the excavation, trying to make sense of all the bones that were lying there, jumbled up like pick-a-sticks as if somebody had tossed them up into the air and let them scatter at random. She could make out at least three pelvises, and two breastbones, and innumerable vertebrae. She was used

They were probably warning the first person to stay well clear until the bomb squad had determined that there wasn't a second device intended to catch first responders. Next

another long think. Then she said, "Can

The cop rolled against the side of the corridor and slid to his knees, leaving a trail of fiercely burning blood on the wall. Then he collapsed and lay still, and in front of our eyes, to our overwhelming horror, the flames that were burning inside him gradually broke out, singeing and then setting fire to his uniform from inside, and then engulfing his whole body until he lay on the carpet blazing like a ritual suicide.

the shed door opened. Immediately the puppies started screaming and

KierowcÄ… taksówki byÅ'a kobieta. DotknÄ…Å'em jej ramienia. -No? - zapytaÅ'a. -Przepraszam, ale chyba bÄ™dÄ™ rzygaÅ'. ObróciÅ'a siÄ™ i obrzuciÅ'a mnie spojrzeniem. Z jej dolnej wargi zwisaÅ' pet. -Panie, do cholery, to nie samolot. Nie zapewniamy torebek. -To co mi pani radzi? - zapytaÅ'em, pocÄ…c siÄ™ (...), samochód podskakiwaÅ' i trzÄ…sÅ'. -PoÅ'ykaj pan - oznajmiÅ'a i skoÅ"czyÅ'a dyskusjÄ™.

She used to think that he was so stocky, and bull-like, but now he felt like a laundry bag filled with old coat hangers.

In the hoarsely whispered words of Detective Markey, who was sitting close enough for Katie to be able to hear him, he had the face of a bulldog sucking piss from a stinging nettle. At last

He was extremely handsome, in a dark, slightly satanic way.

He was no longer an orphan, but finding out who his real father was made him feel as if he were standing naked in an icy wind, at night, with no shelter - a wind that would never stop blowing until the day he died

It's my destiny. Sometimes you're confronted with things in your life and you realise that you have to deal with them. You don't have a choice, because that's what you were born for

Basically, plague comes in three recognized forms. There's bubonic plague, which is when you have buboes or swellings in the groin and axilla. Then there's pneumonic plague, when the bacilli are localized in the lungs – and septicemic plague, when the blood is infected.

bubonic plague is mostly carried by fleas which have bitten plague-ridden rodents, and then accidentally bite people. It isn't a human disease at all, and humans only get caught up in the cycle by mistake.

If you're suffering from pneumonic plague, you only have to cough in someone's face, and they'll almost certainly catch it. It's the sputum. Plague bacilli can stay alive in dried sputum for up to three months.

Let's just say that I'm sensitive to all things rotten. Rotten movies. Rotten paintings. And, more than anything – rotten people . People who mistreat their children, never take their dogs for a decent walk, and yell at their wives for no reason.

We don't want to live like this, but we don't want to die