Roosevelt's Beast Quotes

“You are asking us to lie, Colonel?"
"I am asking you to omit. Surely, amidst the...the infinite gradations of human venality, that particular sin ranks low." The old man kneaded the folds of his throat. "What happened out there belongs out there. The jungle has it; let the jungle keep it...”
― Louis Bayard, Roosevelt's Beast

“Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be.”
― Louis Bayard, Roosevelt's Beast

“After all these years, his best friend is malaria.
Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep chill one night, a ministry of sweat the next. Calling him back to old battles.”
― Louis Bayard, Roosevelt's Beast