The Paths Less Travelled Quotes

“Don’t worry, we’ll take good care of your boat.’ Aleksey thought privately this was a bit of a stretch as they’d sunk four in less than a month by his reckoning.”
― John Wiltshire, The Paths Less Travelled

“Ben looked up from his studying. Aleksey reckoned it was time Ben put the books away and fed him, and annoying him was a sure way to achieve this objective.”
― John Wiltshire, The Paths Less Travelled

“Aleksey was lying down on the couch working on not throwing up.”
― John Wiltshire, The Paths Less Travelled

“We’ve only got a few years left before it all burns!”
― John Wiltshire, The Paths Less Travelled

“He hadn’t meant he’d literally bite her ear off, and afterwards claimed it was just an unfortunate knee-jerk reaction,”
― John Wiltshire, The Paths Less Travelled

“That’s the blood and brains of one of your men. I just put my fist so far into his skull I could read his thoughts with my fingertips. Do you want me to try and decipher yours?”
― John Wiltshire, The Paths Less Travelled

“If he were alone, or not Lord of Light Island with attendant dignity to maintain, he might have tried pissing on them, just to see if he could.”
― John Wiltshire, The Paths Less Travelled

“Do you remember that time I did a fun-run for the hospice? Try to recall how many dying people took part, trotting along in shorts, and then attempt to apply that common sense to this? The homeless sleep out every night.”
― John Wiltshire, The Paths Less Travelled

“Although he conceded that everything he enjoyed—architecture, books, music, wine, smoking, sex with men, and owning lots of things—had not been aided much by people in uniform, but that everything he loathed—muck, cold, being shot at, being ordered around, and very early mornings—had.”
― John Wiltshire, The Paths Less Travelled

“Forty members of al-Qaida were found dumped on the roadside in Iraq in 2009, dead of bubonic plague—huh, I wonder how they just tripped over that.’ She”
― John Wiltshire, The Paths Less Travelled

“We’re committed to voluntary human extinction. We believe procreation is actually just child abuse— it’s entirely unethical to bring children into a world where they will inevitably suffer. Population growth causes environmental degradation, resource depletion, poverty and inequality.”
― John Wiltshire, The Paths Less Travelled

“Can you sit up?’ ‘Can you not kill me with mutant bacteria?’ ‘I am a doctor.’ ‘That’s not all that reassuring at the moment.”
― John Wiltshire, The Paths Less Travelled

“Would you need to introduce them if they’d already travelled together?”
― John Wiltshire, The Paths Less Travelled