Archangel Quotes

“If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

“Actually Gabriel’s an archangel,” I corrected. “But otherwise, yes.”
“Well, that explains why he’s so hard to impress,” said Xavier flippantly”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“And if I should leave you, for any reason," he added, tightening his grip as she struggled to free her hand, "I will return to you. That is as certain as the sun rising tomorrow morning and the thunderbolt falling tomorrow night. That is as sure as the god's existence. I will come back to you, or I will find you - over and over again, as often as we are parted, until the end of the world itself.”
― Sharon Shinn, Archangel

“But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. - J. V. Stalin, 1918”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods. - J. V. Stalin, 1936”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“I can see the headline now: Archangel Busts Were Whisperer.”
― Stacy Mantle, Shepherd's Moon

“Acceptance. That, he had learned in Russia many years ago, was the secret of survival. ... Accept it. Wait. Let the system exhaust itself. Protest will only raise your blood pressure.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“Gratitude", he said, quoting Stalin, "is a dog's disease.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“A dog looks up to you, a cat looks down on you, but a pig looks you straight in the eye.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“Time. Now here is a peculiar commodity, boy. The measurement of time. Best accomplished, obviously, with a watch. But, lacking a watch, a man may use instead the ebb and flow of light and dark. Lacking, however, a window through which to see such movement, the reliance must be devolved upon some inner mechanism of the mind. But if the mind has received a shock, the mechanism is disturbed, and time becomes as the ground is to a drunkard, variable.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“She didn't say goodbye. She set off up the street, dodging the pedestrians, walking fast. He watched her, waiting to see if she might look back. But of course she didn't. He knew she wouldn't. She wasn't the looking-back kind.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“He wondered what O'Brian would have been like in a real war, one in which he actually had to fight rather than just take pictures. Then he wondered what he would have been like. Most of the men he knew asked themselves that question, as if never having fought somehow made them incomplete - left a hole in their lives where a war should have been.
Was it possible that this absence of war - marvellous though it was and so forth: that went without saying - was it possible that it had actually trivialised people? Because everything was so bloody trivial now, wasn't it? This was The Trivial Age. Politics was trivial. What people worried about was trivial - mortgages and pensions and the dangers of passive smoking. Jesus! - is this what we've been reduced to, worrying about passive smoking, when our parents and our grandparents had to worry about being shot or bombed?
And then he began to feel guilty, because what was he implying here? That he wanted a war? ... He was glad it was over, of course, in a way - but at least while it was on people like him had known where they stood, could point to something and say: well, we may not know what we do believe in, but we don't believe in that.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“... unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats, a shortage of textiles, and if housing conditions are bad, freedom will not carry you very far. It is very difficult, comrades, to live on freedom alone.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“Have you ever seen fishermen when a storm is brewing on a great river? I have seen them many a time. In the face of a storm one group of fishermen will muster all their forces, encourage their fellows and boldly put out to meet the storm: 'Cheer up, lads, hold tight to the tiller, cut the waves, we'll pull her through!' But there is another type of fishermen - those who, on sensing a storm, lose heart, begin to snivel and demoralise their own ranks: 'What a misfortune, a storm is brewing; lie down, boys, in the bottom of the boat, shut your eyes; let's hope she'll make the shore somehow.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and destruction: in an earlier and less credulous age, the local citizens would have gathered at the first sight of you and driven you off with stones -”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“In the concealed darkness of the bag her fingers began to work her rosary, clumsily at first but with increasing dexterity - Push. Click. Slide. Press -”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“What she needed was someone who would take her for the whole night. Someone decent and respectable, with an apartment of his own. But how could you ever judge what men were really like? It was the young ones with the swaggering walks and the loud mouths who ended up bursting into tears and showing you pictures of their girlfriends. It was the bespectacled bankers and lawyers who liked to knock you around.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“... he tried to visualise her apartment, but he couldn't do it, he didn't know enough about her.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too?”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went. One day death would come for her, and she would not find that surprising either, and she would not care -”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“the likeness was stricking. Not exact, of course - no man ever looks exactly like his father - but there was something there, no doubt about it, even with the younger man's beard and straggling hair. Something in the cast of the eyes and the bone structure, perhaps, or in the play of the expression: a kind of ponderous agility, a genetic shadow that was beyond the skills of any actor.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale -”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -”
― Robert Harris, Archangel

“The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do next.”
― Robert Harris, Archangel