Resurrection Man Quotes

“For long after guilty memories fade, the urge for penance lingers: strong and blind as the will to drink rain and grope for sunlight.”
― Sean Stewart, Resurrection Man

“Mothers don't cry at weddings because they're sentimental-- xxx Mothers cry because they know how hard it's going to be.”
― Sean Stewart, Resurrection Man

“To tell only the happy stories: that isn't life. It isn't true, and you deserve better. You deserve to know.”
― Sean Stewart, Resurrection Man

“xxx each of us carries his or her own solitude. We are invisible and we cannot be touched.”
― Sean Stewart, Resurrection Man

“Look at Columbus, or Magellan: looking back, historians call you an explorer, but at the time, you‘re just lost.”
― Sean Stewart, Resurrection Man

“He steepled his fingers in monkish solemnity. "You cannot hide from Fate, my son." Sarah grunted. "People don't have fates." "No: fates have people," Jet said, suddenly serious.”
― Sean Stewart, Resurrection Man

“The fear which troubles the life of man from its deepest depths, suffuses all with the blackness of death, and leaves no delight clean and pure.”
― Sean Stewart, Resurrection Man

“Grief lingers, and the ache of loss; those things don't change. But seeping into every leaf, a little guilty burns away each autumn, and falls, spinning down the river. Winter's long sleep begins, and with each spring the tree wales knowing mercifully less than it did the year before.”
― Sean Stewart, Resurrection Man

“Our dreams go on forever, and our ambitions, and our hopes, and the great play of our ideas reaches for eternity.

But we live in time. We die in time.”
― Sean Stewart, Resurrection Man

“Don't tell me it wasn't my fault; that's no damn good to me. Just tell me how to keep from going crazy, will you? Just tell me how to survive.”
― Sean Stewart, Resurrection Man

“The Skinned Man had nothing anymore.No life, no love, no hope, no regret--just a body. Dismantled man.”
― Sean Stewart, Resurrection Man