Graham Masterton Quotes & Sayings

Mistress of the grisly and the glutinous — Graham Masterton

The way to avoid the tragedies of the past is not to let them happen to begin with. — Graham Masterton

Because this woman sobbed in the way that all women sob, whether they do it outwardly or whether they keep it silently locked up inside themselves. They sob because they realise, one day, that they were born on a planet of men, and that short of death or spinsterhood they can never escape. Effie's Aunt Rachel used to say, 'Even the slaves could run away, but where can women go? — Graham Masterton

[ ... ] she hadn't realised how much she missed the company of women who laughed, women who spoke their own minds, women who didn't give a shit for anything. — Graham Masterton

It's bad enough weeping for the loss of a love you once had. Don't be after weeping for the loss of a love you never had at all. — Graham Masterton

Why does the life everlasting have to be won at such terrible cost? If the life
everlasting is true, why can it be achieved only through death, through grief, and
through agony? What kind of God is it who gives us the world and everything in it,
and the capabiliiy of loving so fiercely, and then takes it all away? — Graham Masterton

Just because you can't see them and you can't hear them, that doesn't mean they're not here. — Graham Masterton

Heacox had disobeyed the first two
laws of safety and survival: Do not touch unless you have to, and then do not touch
until you've checked. And maybe here in the Temple of the Dead there was one
more law, even more important: Do not touch until you understand it. — Graham Masterton

She climbed out of the car and walked across the farmyard with her raincoat collar turned up. Liam was standing by the open grave with his hands in the pockets of his long brown — Graham Masterton

Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish their
children to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they must
understand that their children are not their property; that their children are
entitled to pursue happiness in any way they wish. — Graham Masterton

Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history. — Graham Masterton