David Maine > Quotes

“Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“...it takes only a modest amount of disruption to create an inordinate amount of mayhem. It's not necessary to wreak all the destruction yourself. Just begin with a fair amount and man's stupidity and selfishness will do the rest.”
― David Maine, The Book of Samson

“Whatever secrets the dead take with them, they should be allowed to keep. That's my new philosophy. Or put another way: the time to properly know someone is when he, or she, is still alive.”
― David Maine, An Age of Madness

“But there was also something swimming, an idea, a dream of what we were striving for and what it would look like when we got there. Then we got there, and it didn't look the same at all, somehow...Are all human beings malcontents?”
― David Maine, An Age of Madness

“--- And if I'd found you lying there in the sun, and left you? What would you call that if not murder?
--- It's not the same, Cain mutters.
--- Is to me. A man who witnesses a death without trying to prevent it is as responsible for the man who causes it.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“People change in some ways as they grow; in other ways they don't.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“A voice floats out to him. Her voice. --- Who's there?

--- The man you're not afraid of.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“He considers turning back but he knows what lies behind him and he wants no part of it. Just as it wants no part of him.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“Cain wonders what his father had made of him at this age. The idea is startling, that he and his father might have such things in common as pleasures and annoyances of parenthood. Seldom has he let himself consider the world through his father's eyes.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“...I've wandered for many years... So much that I'm unsure where home even lies.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“God will not be outpaced.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“It occurs to him that there are two kinds of people in the world --- those who long to hear God say their name, and those who dread it.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“Know this... The earth sickens of your crime.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“There are many other questions. Noe answers them with variations on:
1. Stop complaining.
2. We’ll solve that problem when faced with it.
3. God will provide.
Sem and Bera seem generally assured by the last of these, while Mirn and Japheth shrug in consent to the first. Illa and Cham appear markedly unconvinced, especially with the second, but surrender to the understanding that no further information is forthcoming. Pg195”
― David Maine, The Preservationist

“The stone rests on his hand with undeniable ease, a slightly embarrassing friend: an acquaintance from younger, more impetuous days...”
― David Maine, Fallen

“No city, regardless of its charm and wonder, could outshine the shadows of THAT notoriety. No boulevards, no matter how flawless, could make straight a lineage THAT crooked. No city need ever be named Cain to ensure THAT name's preservation for posterity.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“There is so much I need, but you can't get it for me.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“How could he ever scorn Henoch? It's normal enough to grow a bit impatient with the boy from time to time. Or so he hopes. But to banish Henoch from sight, the way his own father banished him --- the very idea causes his insides to clench up. He could never do such a thing.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“--- You know who I am.
--- I know your reputation.
--- Then you know I am a dangerous man.
--- I know you were said to be such once.
--- So you know that I am shunned by man and God alike.
--- Be thankful then that I am neither.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“There are worse fates than being forgotten.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“This rejection, this cold unthinking hate. How much it pains him, like a slap against a burnt patch of skin, even after all these years. The unkindness of strangers.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“--- You have some great sadness about you. I don't know where it comes from or what form it takes but you must pass through it and leave it behind.
--- Some things are simpler to say that to do.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“Cain lets his gaze rest upon his son. A project of some sort is needed, something to bring them together. After all this time, there is still much they do not know about each other. Too much. And yes, he can hear the malcontent voice in the back of his mind demand, How much can any of us truly know another?”
― David Maine, Fallen

“--- Why do your camels wear jewelry?
--- So I can find them when they wander off.

The man is so casual that Cain wonders if such things are marked in some ways that he has overlooked.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“That's the second time you've presumed to know my thoughts and been wrong about it.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“This whole story doesn’t make sense! Why would God create a perfect place and then allow the Devil in it, just to trick you? Why tell you not to do something when He could have just removed the tree, and so avoided the problem completely? - Cain”
― David Maine, Fallen

“--- I have long since stopped caring what others think, he said. --- Of me or of anything else.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“He is, he thinks, almost ready to leave this place behind forever. Almost eager, in fact.

Almost.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“--- He is blind... He can't fear what he doesn't see.”
― David Maine, Fallen

“And although those years will not be without trial, they will not lack joy as well. Fleeting as a firefly's burst in the night, but real all the same.”
― David Maine, Fallen