Mark > Mark's Quotes

“You don't know who your friends are ... until you're not like them anymore.”
― Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence

“On the news tonight the new President said there's no reason for anyone to worry about the situation. He didn't say which situation.”
― Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence

“A bowshot down the slope of winter-brown grass and broken snow, beyond the dead campfires and the sleepers cocooned in whatever covering they had been able to find, green-robed spruce and white-limbed birch stirred in a dawn wind that repeated - once only - the blessing she had received.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Wizard

“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.”
― Nic Pizzolatto, Galveston