Top 23 Steven Galloway Quotes
#1. If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.
#2. Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned.
#3. There are those here who believe they are right simply because they oppose something that is evil.
#4. Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
#5. Civilisation isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily. It vanishes far more quickly than he even would have thought possible.
#6. If this city is to die, it won't be because of the men on the hills, it will be because of the people in the valley. When they're content to live with death, to become what the men on the hills want them to be, then Sarajevo will die.
#7. There is no way to tell which version of a lie is the truth.
#8. A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.
#9. It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded.
#10. We are all glass soldiers.
#11. ... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions.
#12. The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.
#13. You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.
#14. A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.
#15. There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.
#16. Where is the 'punch' in sweetness and light?
#17. Truth always prevails. Both divine and devil are two sides of the same coin. Rather, devil is in the divine and divine is in the devil. It is for us to make a conscious choice, whether we want to be devil or divine. Let us choose good over evil.
#18. By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency.
#19. I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.
#20. The opportunity to die was everywhere, and it just wasn't surprising when that opportunity became an event.
#21. The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.
#22. Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?
#23. The choices she's made have left her without choice.