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1 " He was my father, darling, but I have to confess I didn’t like him very much. "
― John Saul , Hellfire
2 " Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh? "
3 " Making someone die, he was suddenly sure, was different from killing them. He could never kill anyone. But he could make someone die. "
― John Saul , Nathaniel
4 " All I want is to be left alone. That’s why I have that fence. It’s not only to keep the critters in. It’s to keep people out. "
5 " There’s a lot of people around here, me included, who think she talked him into an early grave, and that he wasn’t the least bit sorry to go. "
6 " The country would be far better if the population were half as interested in keeping their minds in as good condition as they tried to keep their bodies. "
― John Saul
7 " If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom. "
― John Saul , Perfect Nightmare
8 " Time is always relative.... For the terminally ill, six months are a lifetime, and not a very long one. To a three-year-old waiting for Christmas, it's an eternity so distant it's not even worth thinking about. "
9 " Doubt is thus the space between reality and the application of an idea. It ought to be given over to the weighing of experience, intuition, creativity, ethics, common sense, reason and, of course, knowledge, in balanced consideration of what is to be done. The longer this stage lasts the more we take advantage of our intelligence. "
10 " You know what you have to do, Matthew." Darkness began to close around him, until all he could see was the head ot the deer. The deer and something beyond... "Do it Matthew," the voice whisperd. "Do it for me... "
― John Saul , Nightshade
11 " She stood a little straighter, closed her eyes, and raised her arms in embrace of her final act.The she took a deep breath and dove, headfirst--face-first--into oblivion "
― John Saul , Faces of Fear
12 " Until lunchtime, he'd had no idea, really, what love was, but now he knew. It made you happy, and it made you want to dance, and it made you feel funny. But most of all, you knew you had someone you could trust.Someone you could tell everything to. Absolutely everything. "
― John Saul , House of Reckoning
13 " What it would be like to simply disappear into the blackness, to float forever in silence and nothingness. "
― John Saul , Black Creek Crossing
14 " The silence of the building closed around him like a shroud. "
― John Saul , Shadows
15 " It had been no more than three minutes since she had awakened, laughing quietly, from her dream. Now the quiet laughter was over, and Polly MacIver was dead. "
― John Saul , Second Child
16 " She felt that she'd been watching a shadow. A shadow of the dead. "
17 " The terrible dark, where nothing, not even time itself, existed. "
― John Saul , Midnight Voices
18 " Collins rewound the tape a few feet, then "
― John Saul , Creature
19 " This’s a citizens’ meeting,” Forager sneered. “Not a council meeting. Nobody’s gonna run it.” “I see,” Norton said, standing up. He was pleased to note that Forager moved back another pace. “In that case, you can count on me showing up. I always wanted to see a meeting nobody was running. It ought to be fascinating. "
― John Saul , Suffer the Children
20 " A Connally! Always remember that I raised you to be a Connally! "
― John Saul , The Blackstone Chronicles
