Steven J. Carroll > Quotes

“It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.”
― Steven J. Carroll, All the Worlds of Men

“...a friend is someone to whom you can tell all your secrets, someone whom you can trust without reservation, a person who is not overawed when you are at your best, and is not turned away when you are at your worst.”
― Steven J. Carroll, City of Words

“Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn't ever wish that on nobody.”
― Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho

“You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...”
― Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho

“It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.”
― Steven J. Carroll, A Prince of Earth

“To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever.”
― Steven J. Carroll, A Prince of Earth

“Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.”
― Steven J. Carroll, In the Window Room

“If you always try to measure yourself with
money... well, it's like counting backwards, the more you
keep on, the less you'll have to show for it.”
― Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho

“Sometimes a bus is your bus, and sometimes it ain't, and it's important that you can tell the difference.”
― Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho

“And it is a strange thing about love... it is that it can take a strength that would seem otherwise insignificant and transform it into a hardly quenchable power.”
― Steven J. Carroll, Worlds Unending

“If only I could be a prince in every world.”
― Steven J. Carroll, A Prince of Earth

“Revolution." Just a single word that no one even understands, and yet it has the power to kill us all. Just one single word, sharper than any bullet or weapon, and more devastating.”
― Steven J. Carroll, City of Words

“There are some debts that can't be paid with money.”
― Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho

“And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.”
― Steven J. Carroll, A Prince of Earth

“There are secret passages all around you if you know where to look for them.”
― Steven J. Carroll, In the Window Room

“A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.”
― Steven J. Carroll

“History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.”
― Steven J. Carroll, All the Worlds of Men

“It will always take a good deal more courage to do something foolishly dangerous, when it is planned, than when it happens by surprise.”
― Steven J. Carroll, Worlds Unending

“timeḁ.”
― Steven J. Carroll, In the Window Room

“Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.”
― Steven J. Carroll, Worlds Unending