Francis Crozier Quotes & Sayings

wondered if he was going to turn up. When he did, I was gutted. — Collette Elliott

Francis Crozier now understood that the most desirable and erotic thing a woman could wear were the many modest layers such as Sophia Cracroft wore to dinner in the governor's house, enough silken fabric to conceal the lines of her body, allowing a man to concentrate on the exciting loveliness of her wit — Dan Simmons

I remember that day in early May after Le Vesconte's and Private Pilkington's brief joint burial service, one of the men suggested that we name the small spur of land where they were buried "Le Vesconte Point," but Captain Crozier vetoed that idea, saying that if we named every place where one of us might end up buried after the dead person there, we'd run out of land before we ran out of names. — Dan Simmons

He often swore that if all the people who had worked for the paper in those years could appear at one time before the throne of The Almighty - if they all stood there and recited their histories and their quirks and their crimes and their deviations - there was no doubt in his mind that God himself would fall down in a swoon and tear his hair. Of course Lotterman exaggerated; — Hunter S. Thompson

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.
Has it? — Dan Simmons

At this point, there is no human way that I could read even those books I've deliberately marked as absolute must-reads. [ . . . ] This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing — Pamela Paul

that's a pretty big lie by omission — Carrie Jones

The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus would never again steam or sail - but then he reminded himself of one certainty: when his store of whiskey was gone, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier was going to blow his brains out. — Dan Simmons

Being brave is a choice you make. You've got to say to yourself: I'm going to think brave. I refuse to think fear or panic. — John Marsden

I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous. — Sara Sheridan