Silk Road Quotes

“You have a god who makes you weak, then punishes you for your weakness. Do you not find that strange?”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“mind,”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“My opinion does not matter. I have the blood of Genghis Khan but the feet of a Chinese princess. I cannot ride a horse or even walk very far on my own. I am not a Person anymore. I am my father’s sacrifice to those he has conquered.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“In return, your pope must send to me a hundred of his most learned advisers to help me in the administration of my kingdom.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“Heaven cannot grant permanence to anything so why do we seek it? Empires are built and will crumble. Even Genghis Khan did not live forever.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“At night, the spirits would whisper to her and sometimes transport her across the steppe.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“The Mongols do not have enemies. Only kingdoms we have not yet conquered.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“If he runs from the Mongols like everyone else, what use is he to us?”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“No, Josseran thought. By the time we arrive Christ Himself may have returned a second time.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“The dark silhouette of the mountains in front of them faded against a leaden sky shot through with shafts of gold.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“he could scarcely believe this was the cavalry that had laid waste to half the known world.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“Our khan is not surprised that your lord extends his hand in friendship,’ the general said, ‘or he may find it cut off.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“The Place Where the Ass Died”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“am born to the wrong sex, with the heart of a stallion and the tail of a mare.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“The world may be conquered from horseback, but it cannot be ruled from it.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“To begin the affair, a spokesman from each faction was to give a brief account of his own religion and afterwards they would debate in open forum.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“He taught that everything is transient, that happiness and youth can never last, that all life is suffering, and we are trapped by an endless cycle of birth and rebirth. If you have a good life, your next life will be better. If you do bad things, you will return next as a beggar, or a beast of burden perhaps. But only by giving up all desire can you escape the endless wheel and reach heaven.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“What good is religion without magic?”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“Empires are built and will crumble; even Genghis Khan did not live forever.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“and may your stalk turn into a chicken and eat your testicles a peck at a time!”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“His fellow monks carried him back to his cell and laid him on the hard cot that had been his bed for the last twenty years. He was an old man now and there was nothing to be done. His eyes had the cold sheen of death. A brother went to fetch the abbot so that the old fellow might make his last confession.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“They found him in the cloister, lying on his back with ice in his beard. He was half conscious, muttering about a Templar knight, a secret commission from the Pope, and a beautiful woman on a white pony.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“Nestorius.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road