Quotes from Graham Masterton

all under control." "It's all under control, is it? Four good men have been blown to

Just because you can't see them and you can't hear them, that doesn't mean they're not here.

Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish their children to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they must understand that their children are not their property; that their children are entitled to pursue happiness in any way they wish.

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

Gut ist der Schlaf, der Tod ist besser

It's bad enough weeping for the loss of a love you once had. Don't be after weeping for the loss of a love you never had at all.

The way to avoid the tragedies of the past is not to let them happen to begin with.

Why does the life everlasting have to be won at such terrible cost? If the life everlasting is true, why can it be achieved only through death, through grief, and through agony? What kind of God is it who gives us the world and everything in it, and the capabiliiy of loving so fiercely, and then takes it all away?

Because this woman sobbed in the way that all women sob, whether they do it outwardly or whether they keep it silently locked up inside themselves. They sob because they realise, one day, that they were born on a planet of men, and that short of death or spinsterhood they can never escape. Effie's Aunt Rachel used to say, 'Even the slaves could run away, but where can women go?

she hadn't realised how much she missed the company of women who laughed, women who spoke their own minds, women who didn't give a shit for anything.

She climbed out of the car and walked across the farmyard with her raincoat collar turned up. Liam was standing by the open grave with his hands in the pockets of his long brown

I hereby solemnly and sincerely declare before God that I will faithfully discharge the duties of a member of An Garda Síochána with fairness, integrity, regard for human rights, diligence and impartiality, upholding the constitution and the law and according equal respect to all people

Well, then,' said Charlie, his face half hidden in the shadows. 'How long do you think this baby has been dead?

One smile is more effective than a thousand shouts

Heacox had disobeyed the first two laws of safety and survival: Do not touch unless you have to, and then do not touch until you've checked. And maybe here in the Temple of the Dead there was one more law, even more important: Do not touch until you understand it.

Mor-Rioghain is a bean-sidhe, a banshee

Across the Bay, lightning walked on awkward stilts

I guess you're right,' he said. 'They don't usually put anything on the television unless it's true.

I'm not at all sure yet. I'm absolutely

Petrie. I stood up for a principle I believe in. If the whole of America has to die for that principle, then I still believe it's worth it.' 'Even if the principle kills the very people it's supposed to protect?' Kenneth Garunisch turned away. 'Principles are everything, Dr. Petrie. Without principles, we cease to be living beings.

Normally, when they opened up the womb, they were presented with the top of the baby's head, and then with its face, its eyes squinched tight. All they could see inside Chiasoka was a mess of tubes, like a bowlful of thick cannelloni, although some of the tubes appeared to have rows of small nobbles on them, which could have been rudimentary fingers.

I've lived here all my life and it's a fascinating part of the world. There are so many legends and fairy stories about it - spooks and demons and witches. That's natural, I suppose, considering the landscape. You can go out on a foggy morning and imagine that you're the only human being in the world, but you can hear weird animal noises quite close by and see shadows flitting around, behind the fog

The shopping centre was busy, and there was a long line at O'Briens' counter, but despite the noise and the music she somehow felt isolated.

I never would have believed it, the way Hunter's rousing people up. He's talking like some kind of hostile fascist, and yet they're loving it.