John Saul Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Doubt is thus the space between reality and the application of an idea. It ought to be given over to the weighing of experience, intuition, creativity, ethics, common sense, reason and, of course, knowledge, in balanced consideration of what is to be done. The longer this stage lasts the more we take advantage of our intelligence. — John Saul

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

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

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

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

Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh? — John Saul

What it would be like to simply disappear into the blackness, to float forever in silence and nothingness. — John Saul

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

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

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

He was my father, darling, but I have to confess I didn't like him very much. — John Saul

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