David Healey > Quotes

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
― David Healey, Ghost Sniper

“Louisa went about her duties at the hospital, trying not to dwell on the fact that this might be her last day alive.”
― David Healey, Rebel Fever: A Civil War Novel

“Much later, while I was recovering from being shot, I realized that the hunt for the last great Nazi war criminal had started because of a hunch I’d gotten while reading the newspaper.”
― David Healey

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
― David Healey, Ghost Sniper

“There's something visceral about a storm in the night, how it tugs at the eaves and rattles the windows like some beast trying to get in.”
― David Healey, Great Storms of the Chesapeake

“is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
― David Healey, Ghost Sniper

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― David Healey, Ardennes Sniper