The Prince in Waiting Quotes

“We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.”
― John Christopher, The Prince in Waiting

“Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.”
― John Christopher, The Prince in Waiting

“Before you have faith you must believe, and before you believe there must be evidence of some sort to persuade the mind. Faith is remembering that evidence and holding to it against all that seems to challenge or contradict it.”
― John Christopher, The Prince in Waiting

“Everyone recognized she was without malice and therefore she provoked none.”
― John Christopher, The Prince in Waiting

“There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.”
― John Christopher, The Prince in Waiting

“Then I went to the windows and pulled them open. The rain had stopped and the night was very still, black except for the glow behind the western hills that marked the Burning Lands. A dog barked far off, once and no more.”
― John Christopher, The Prince in Waiting