Suffer the Children Quotes

“This’s a citizens’ meeting,” Forager sneered. “Not a council meeting. Nobody’s gonna run it.” “I see,” Norton said, standing up. He was pleased to note that Forager moved back another pace. “In that case, you can count on me showing up. I always wanted to see a meeting nobody was running. It ought to be fascinating.”
― John Saul, Suffer the Children

“You love her, even if you don’t believe you do. You’re used to her, and a lot of love is nothing more than habit.”
― John Saul, Suffer the Children

“The mind tended to attach priorities to things, Dr. Belter knew, and often much could be learned not from the points being made, but from the order of the points and their relative importance to the person making them.”
― John Saul, Suffer the Children

“If someone believes strongly enough that something will happen, it will, in all likelihood, happen.”
― John Saul, Suffer the Children

“Often we find that the things our conscious minds refuse to take seriously our subconscious minds deal with in a very serious manner. Essentially, that is what dreams are all about, and, sometimes, neuroses and psychoses. One might say that mental illness results when our conscious minds and our unconscious minds try to do each other’s jobs.”
― John Saul, Suffer the Children

“They simply have a different standard of normality. And when you look at the state of the world, who’s really to say they’re wrong?”
― John Saul, Suffer the Children