The Last Monument Quotes

“And I’m here to tell you none of it matters. None of it. Just love. It’s our only real protection against the world out there. Everything else is just some veiled disguise of meaninglessness. You just have to realize it in time.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“wrong,”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“Now the old, scrawny man lay silently on his bed, keeping to himself, lost in what few memories he still had left.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“It provides nothing but an empty sense of hope. Until eventually, you realize that not even hope is real.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“Loss was painful, but regret was forever.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“To destroy another country’s army or government in war was one thing. But to destroy the very identity and history of the citizens themselves was akin to cultural genocide. For Hitler, killing millions of innocent victims was not enough. He also wanted to destroy their culture and the very souls of those who might survive. To plunder and confiscate human history itself. And destroy it if need be. Saved by approximately sixty overweight and out of shape volunteer soldiers who laid their lives down to find and protect it all. It was an extraordinary effort that few alive today fully appreciated or even understood. And yet it was one that ironically left Rickards with a strange feeling”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“The smaller the tribe, the less it changes. Including its history,” she said.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“The smaller the tribe, the less it changes.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“You want to know why. It’s what we all want eventually. Knowing what is never enough.” “Even investigators?”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“The excitement of youth eventually gives way to the patience and wisdom of age. It’s the natural cycle of things, but sometimes difficult to accept.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“every human has the same physiology, dexterity, brain size and capacity for complex thought as anyone else.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“There is one thing that I believe to be emphatically and categorically true, regardless of your spiritual beliefs. And that is…that responsibility is purpose.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“ninety percent of all the matter, or mass, in the universe cannot be seen. In fact, it can barely be detected. But we know it’s there because we can measure the mass that we can see and its effects on things. And ninety percent is missing.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“far”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“I’m just saying that history and cultures are a lot more complicated than many of us want to believe or acknowledge. It’s easier just to have one belief and stick to it.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“all men were fallible. All were vulnerable”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“getting on an airplane. Especially going back to Bolivia. She’d spent years trying to forget that horrible event. Trying to put it behind her and focus on a life ahead. Peace. Happiness. Only instead to find that she’d grown more spiteful over her own past, and now her grandfather’s. This whole thing was just so bizarre. So surreal. And now she’d managed to tangle Joe Rickards up in it. Yes, he could make his own decisions, but it was she who’d shown up on his doorstep, almost forcing her way in. Forced a man who was already deeply wounded from God knows what. What kind of person was she to get him tangled up in her mess? Just because he had been interested didn’t mean he wanted to be part of it—whatever it was. Part of something she wasn’t even sure she wanted to be part of. But in the end, he was right. Knowing what had happened”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“Culture, at its core, is the very embodiment of a society’s intellectual achievements. Of our identity. Of our existence!”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“living is not about missing those who have left. It’s about caring for those who are still there.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“Don’t be afraid of the future, sweetheart. Be afraid of missing the present.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“But being apart is not the worst thing. It’s losing someone without being sure they know how you feel. How much you really love them. More than your words can describe. And how much they are part of you.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“But guilt. Guilt was worst of all. Especially when it came to a child. There were simply no words that could ever make a difference. No words to help heal those permanent wounds in a parent’s heart.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“After we become adults, I’m afraid we begin to see the world for what it really is. A constant struggle. Not just to survive or prosper, but to actually find meaning in all of it. To find reason.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“Knowledge only went so far in moderating a human body’s natural anxiety.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“It’s funny. You can spend years cultivating a dream, working toward your goals, turning it into reality. Toward the one thing you think you’re meant to do. Only to have it decimated in a single night. In mere hours. Leaving you not even wanting to think about that dream again for years.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“But on average, when adjusted for certain cultural biases, there is no indication that one society is significantly smarter than the others. In other words, we all have similar cognitive abilities, even if we don’t all have the same means to apply them.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“How being her daddy was the greatest thing he had ever done. Had ever felt. And how he thought of her, how he thought of them both, every single day.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“That the pain is not from missing someone, it’s from feeling like you didn’t tell them enough.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“Sweetheart, living is not about missing those who have left. It’s about caring for those who are still there.”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument

“television”
― Michael C. Grumley, The Last Monument