Fallen Quotes

“Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“Know this... The earth sickens of your crime.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“It occurs to him that there are two kinds of people in the world --- those who long to hear God say their name, and those who dread it.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“God will not be outpaced.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“--- Confess what you have done... Do not compound your sin by denying it.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“It is only a matter of time before his brother's presence fades from his memory, and the immediate reality of bearing all humanity's loathing becomes once more his daily preoccupation.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“And although those years will not be without trial, they will not lack joy as well. Fleeting as a firefly's burst in the night, but real all the same.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“This rejection, this cold unthinking hate. How much it pains him, like a slap against a burnt patch of skin, even after all these years. The unkindness of strangers.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“--- And if I'd found you lying there in the sun, and left you? What would you call that if not murder?
--- It's not the same, Cain mutters.
--- Is to me. A man who witnesses a death without trying to prevent it is as responsible for the man who causes it.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“--- Why do your camels wear jewelry?
--- So I can find them when they wander off.

The man is so casual that Cain wonders if such things are marked in some ways that he has overlooked.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“One thing he is grateful for: his mind is not so burdened as it had been with anger and self-pity and doubt and guilt and rage. The voices that whisper in his ear from time to time have fallen silent. He has only so much energy in his body and right now, all is concentrated on staying alive. So in a way, he finds some measure of peace. Or if not peace exactly, then --- stillness.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“There are worse fates than being forgotten.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“He considers turning back but he knows what lies behind him and he wants no part of it. Just as it wants no part of him.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“--- You have some great sadness about you. I don't know where it comes from or what form it takes but you must pass through it and leave it behind.
--- Some things are simpler to say that to do.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“...I've wandered for many years... So much that I'm unsure where home even lies.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“--- He is blind... He can't fear what he doesn't see.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“That's the second time you've presumed to know my thoughts and been wrong about it.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“--- You know who I am.
--- I know your reputation.
--- Then you know I am a dangerous man.
--- I know you were said to be such once.
--- So you know that I am shunned by man and God alike.
--- Be thankful then that I am neither.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“... You know who I am.
--- I know your reputation.
--- Then you know I am a dangerous man.
--- I know you were said to be such once.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“--- What do you want?

The answer to that is both simple and very complicated. To sit down somewhere without worrying that he soon has to run off again. To talk to people who do not shun him. To smell the air exhaled by a woman. To eat the food she hands him and see the flutter of her hands as she talks. To go home.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“A voice floats out to him. Her voice. --- Who's there?

--- The man you're not afraid of.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“The stone rests on his hand with undeniable ease, a slightly embarrassing friend: an acquaintance from younger, more impetuous days...”
― David Maine, Fallen

“--- Father, the boy repeats. --- You're not going to kill me, are you?
--- Of course not.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“Cain lets his gaze rest upon his son. A project of some sort is needed, something to bring them together. After all this time, there is still much they do not know about each other. Too much. And yes, he can hear the malcontent voice in the back of his mind demand, How much can any of us truly know another?”
― David Maine, Fallen

“How could he ever scorn Henoch? It's normal enough to grow a bit impatient with the boy from time to time. Or so he hopes. But to banish Henoch from sight, the way his own father banished him --- the very idea causes his insides to clench up. He could never do such a thing.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“He has many reasons to scorn the bulk of humanity, and feels no shame for it.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“--- You've nobody to blame but yourself, you know.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“Cain wonders what his father had made of him at this age. The idea is startling, that he and his father might have such things in common as pleasures and annoyances of parenthood. Seldom has he let himself consider the world through his father's eyes.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“Cain wonders for the first time, whether a child is born with the man already inside him waiting to emerge; or if there is only blankness, a void inside ready to be filled with whatever might be placed there.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“Henoch has passed from the childhood stage of unfettered adoration for his father and has moved to a difficult point of feeling that every demand on his person is a deeply rooted injustice.

Cain grimaces at the remembered familiarity of THAT.”
― David Maine, Fallen