John Saul Quotes

#1. What it would be like to simply disappear into the blackness, to float forever in silence and nothingness.

John Saul

#2. Until lunchtime, he'd had no idea, really, what love was, but now he knew.
It made you happy, and it made you want to dance, and it made you feel funny.
But most of all, you knew you had someone you could trust.
Someone you could tell everything to. Absolutely everything.

John Saul

#3. You know what you have to do, Matthew." Darkness began to close around him, until all he could see was the head ot the deer. The deer and something beyond... "Do it Matthew," the voice whisperd. "Do it for me...

John Saul

#4. All I want is to be left alone. That's why I have that fence. It's not only to keep the critters in. It's to keep people out.

John Saul

#5. Making someone die, he was suddenly sure, was different from killing them. He could never kill anyone. But he could make someone die.

John Saul

#6. Time is always relative.... For the terminally ill, six months are a lifetime, and not a very long one. To a three-year-old waiting for Christmas, it's an eternity so distant it's not even worth thinking about.

John Saul

#7. He was my father, darling, but I have to confess I didn't like him very much.

John Saul

#8. If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom.

John Saul

#9. Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh?

John Saul

#10. There's a lot of people around here, me included, who think she talked him into an early grave, and that he wasn't the least bit sorry to go.

John Saul

#11. She stood a little straighter, closed her eyes, and raised her arms in embrace of her final act.

The she took a deep breath and dove, headfirst--face-first--into oblivion

John Saul

#12. You love her, even if you don't believe you do. You're used to her, and a lot of love is nothing more than habit.

John Saul

#13. The country would be far better if the population were half as interested in keeping their minds in as good condition as they tried to keep their bodies.

John Saul