The Stone Man Quotes

“The only thing in this world more irresistible to human beings than greed is curiosity, and the need to know the answers.”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

“we all are never one person alone. Different sides of us, brought out by different situations, and we can never truly know who we will be from one day to the next. You can be one of them more than you are any of the others, and decide that is you ... but when you are caught unawares, the dice of your personality is rolled and the outcome is not given by any means.”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

“the things you ‘just don’t do’ and the things you ‘just do’, in my eyes, are the actions of sheep. Act the way you feel, not the way you’re expected to. Say what you mean.”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

“All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. —George S. Patton”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

“One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning. —Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart, quoting Mark Helprin”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

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― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

“that I suddenly wanted to know what he had to say, despite my normal loathing for this kind of chavvy little twat.”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

“I guess it’s because it’s so damn slow; some people are just thinking it’ll be all right. Weird, really. When it’s just one thing, and so easily avoided, if you know it’s coming … you’d think it would be the easiest thing in the world to prevent any more loss of life.”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

“I have given you room to provide an alternative solution to the problem, and unless I’m mistaken, you haven’t managed to do so; if all you have to offer are criticisms on the people making the decisions, without being able to offer any better decisions yourself, then I suggest you reserve your judgement.” I”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

“if all you have to offer are criticisms on the people making the decisions, without being able to offer any better decisions yourself, then I suggest you reserve your judgement.”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

“He’d cried a bit when he sat down, then stared off into the sky once he’d done so, thinking about, of all things, Sheffield United, and the realisation that if they ever got back into the Premiership then he wouldn’t be around to see it. That had nearly set him off again, but instead, he’d had a thought that made him smirk in the darkness. Even without the Stone Men’s arrival, he didn’t think he’d have lived to see that. Paul”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

“deliberately vague, attention-seeking Facebook statuses are for thirteen-year-old girls.”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

“chanting. Neither any of the C.I.s, or this man here,”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

“If you can’t be true to your own word, then what have you got? Shaun”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

“This country is never silent. Even on top of our mountains, there are distant motorways below and passing planes above.”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man

“He nodded slightly, and”
― Luke Smitherd, The Stone Man