The Jekyll Revelation Quotes

“Keep your voice down!’ I warned. ‘The house is asleep.’ ‘Come quick,’ he repeated, though in a lower tone. ‘And bring gun.’ ‘Why?”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“to catch his breath again, he merely said ‘gun’, and it was then that I took note of the stain on the drooping folds of the pareu wrapped around his waist. In the moonlight, it had at first appeared to be dirt or perhaps red wine—though the Samoans have no taste for wine—but its crust and gleam now revealed it to be dried blood. A sight that you and I, my friend, know all too well.”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“the journal, but with a kind of reverence now that he had not initially felt. He hadn’t known at first whose initials they were—RLS—nor had he known who Louis or Fanny were. But then he’d read and deciphered more of the text, put it all together, and discovered that the author of the book was none other than Robert Louis Stevenson. The man whose”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were intentional. But that was a lesson nobody ever seemed to learn. Maybe”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“Wicked thoughts can lead to wicked deeds, and wicked deeds can, in turn, poison the mind further.”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“it shall have served as my epitaph. A bookmark . . . or a bookend.”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“magazine, People, Newsday, and the Washington Post. A long-standing member of the Writers Guild of America, he has taught and lectured at colleges and universities nationwide, including the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also served as visiting lecturer in literature at Claremont McKenna College for”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“had to tread lightly, and with care. In my haste, I stumbled over one or two of the houseboys, who grumbled and rolled over, and once in my study, I unlocked the case that holds my Colt rifle. Unreliable as it is, it still affords the best and”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“into the burning end of a torch. Someone was running across the cleared land, torch held high, and I could hear, above the soughing of the wind in the banyan trees, a voice shouting, ‘Tusitala! Come quick!’ Tusitala—teller of tales—is how I am known in the native tongue, and now I could tell that it was the voice of one of my boys, Malaki, who has helped clear the brush and dig the well. He arrived panting at the foot of the porch—his bare brown legs are crisscrossed with so many tattoos that they look as if he wears lace breeches. ‘Keep your voice down!”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“nationwide, including the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also served as visiting lecturer in literature at Claremont McKenna College for six years. A native of Evanston, Illinois, Masello”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“to imbibe it is to undergo, at the peril of my very soul, a transformation so radical that simply to behold it threatens the sanity.”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“Nor could I forget my role in the terrible changes that had overtaken him. We shook hands in a manly fashion, and then under Fanny’s approving eye, embraced. In my heart, I have always felt a powerful urge towards forgiveness, coupled with the conviction that time can alter anyone, for good or ill. I was prepared to believe that the Lloyd I knew, serial impostor and unwanted suitor, was a new and different man.”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“Though they have not the capacity to reply, I refuse to believe that our pets have no comprehension”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were intentional. But that was a lesson nobody ever seemed to learn.”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“a man needs his whiskey and his cigars, or what’s the point of living at all? The”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“Am I going to die?” “No trainee of mine has ever died.” “How many have you had?” “You’re the first.” It”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation

“If you have it within your powers to summon the devil, why not summon angels instead?’ Though”
― Robert Masello, The Jekyll Revelation