The Pool of Fire Quotes

“I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.”
― John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

“Some people are oil and water.”
― John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

“It is hard to be defensive toward a danger which you have never imagined existed.”
― John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

“His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.”
― John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

“We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.”
― John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

“A general does not use the same troops over and over again.”
― John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

“Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.”
― John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

“To voice doubts was unthinkable, but that did not means that doubts did not exist.”
― John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

“The hemispheres were everywhere, the larger ones having a platform under the Tripod figure at the top, from which a priest called the faithful to prayer three times a day, at dawn and noon and sunset. We bowed our heads and muttered with the rest.”
― John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

“He gave me a lecture on the futility of self-recrimination, the importance of realizing that the only good lesson to be learned from the past was how to avoid similar errors in the future.”
― John Christopher, Tripods: The Pool of Fire: Book 3

“Spare a thought now and then for those who do not have luck on their side.”
― John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

“Only one thing is important: winning the struggle.”
― John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

“But that does not make it easier to bear, when one has told a story of courage and skill and high endeavor, and finds it afterward painted a somewhat different color.”
― John Christopher, The Pool of Fire