Quotes

Every book(almost) in the Deathlands series has a quote in the beginning. Here is a compilation of quotes from the series.

Pilgrimage to Hell

(This book does not have a quote.)

Red Holocaust

(Instead of a quote, there is only a dedication.) "This is for MH, who made me believe in the reality of deus ex machina. With thanks and the best of friendship."

Neutron Solstice

(This book does not have a quote.)

Crater Lake

I, a stranger, and afraid, in a world I never made. --A. E. Houseman

(Dedication) "Cui dono lepidum novum libellum Arido modo pumice expolitum? The question was asked by Catullus in 54 B.C. And the answer is to Randall Toye, with thanks for all his enthusiasm and guidance thus far."

Homeward Bound

The earth is all the home I have. --W. E. Aytoun

(Dedication) "A hand in the darkness and a smile in the noonday sun, As so often before and for always, this is for Liz with all my love."

Pony Soldiers

The frontier is always with us, just a little beyond tomorrow's dawn. --J. K. Lobkowitz 1824-1893

(Dedication) This is for Dave Thomas, who is both my best and my oldest friend. A whole quarter century and it doesn't seem a day too much. This is with my hope that he eventually finds the pot of gold at rainbow's end.

Dectra Chain

They that go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep. --The Book of Common Prayer, Psalm 107

(Dedication)""Elegantiae arbiter," said Tacitus of Petronius. It could apply equally well to Feroze Mohammed. This book is for him, with my thanks for his ceaseless help, advice and encouragement.

Ice and Fire

This ae nighte, this ae nighte, every nighte and alle, Fire and sleet and candle-lighte, and Christe receive thy soule. --From the medieval ballad, "The Lyke-Wake Dirge"

(Dedication) ""Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli," said Terentianus Maurus, around A.D 200. This is particularly true if the reader is my line editor, Cathy Haddad. This book is for her, with thanks for her always positive and friendly support.

Red Equinox

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia> It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. --Winston Churchill, October 1, 1939

(Dedication) "Everyone needs a hand to guide, an arm to support. A light in the darkness and a best friend. This one, as before and for always, with all of my loving, is for Liz."

Northstar Rising

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die? --Lavengro by George Barrow

(Dedication) This one is for Angus Wells, who has been, and still is, one of the very best of friends. All good things.

Time Nomads

The past and present are only a heartbeat apart. --From Tunnel Vision by Laurence James Published by Blackie, 1989

(Dedication) "It's been thirty years since I first saw John Stewart, singing as part of the Kingston Trio. Since then I've seen him plenty of times as a solo performer and bought every one of the string of wonderful, and largely unheralded, records. This is for John, with my thanks and admiration, from one of the legion of loyal friends and front-row dancers."

Latitude Zero

With is notorious extremes of terrain and temperment, the area of southern Texas known as Big Bend is the only place on earth where one can witness both Purgatory and Paradise in a single afternoon. --From Water and Stone, by J. McKinley Thompson, 1943

(Dedication) "I'm grateful for every single day for the miraculous luck that brought us together. Now and for always, this is for Liz.

Seedling

(This book does not have a quote.)

(Dedication) "This is for Geoff, Anne, Ben, and Saul Kelly, who are friends. If you don't have dreams, then how can they come true?"

Rider, Reaper

Happiness dwells within each heart, Until it's stolen by a thief. We all know that villian dark, Whose wretched name is grief. --From Lives of Quiet Desperation, by Mary Lynn Britton, Bishop's Press, 1888

Road Wars

In the end, we'll all finish up in the cold, cold ground. But, until then, bloody Hell, babes, don't we have fun! --From Wine, Theatre and Friends, by Archie Pellago, Goldhurst Press, 1992

Trader Redux

During my too long life, I have often lost touch with good, good friends for a number of years and then contrived to meet up with them again. These meetings, which I always anticipated with great eagerness, were universally a great disappointment. It is one of the great truths of the world that you can never go back. --From The Gospel According to Me, by Bobo "Tinky" Finkelstein, Showbiz Press, New York, 1937

Genesis Echo

There is a belief that somewhere in the world everyone has an identical double. If i ever meet mine I'd ask him how he copes with being so irresistibly charming and sexually attractive to all women. No, listen, that's a joke, right? If I really bumped into my double then I'd figure that I was either mad or dead. Probably dead. --Heads I Win, Tails You Lose, by Lucky Giordano, priv. pub., NY, 1982

Crossways

Teachers are to life what morticians are to death. They rip out yours guts, drain you of your vital fluids and then turn you into whay they think you should look like to face eternity. Or they just do what they can to make life feel like eternity. --The Best Education Is No Education, by Jean-Paul Godard, Vanquer Press, Paris

Eclipse at Noon

One should head eventually for the place where the land becomes mainly sea and the sea becomes mainly sky. --From Midnight Rambler, the Collected Thoughts of Chairman Mark, published by Islander Press of Key West, 1995

The Mars Arena

Some say that men love games Some say that war's a game And from the Roman days The red god sets the pace Mars, it's always Mars With Venus in his arms Don't they know the real arena She draws blood to stoke her love And the Reaper shows his bones Shadding kindness like a cloak Mars, his nights of bliss Venus and her blood-red kiss --from the Liar cycle the rock group Polo Heads

Nightmare Passage

My mouth is split open by the god of the air With that metal spear he used to split open the mouth of the gods. I am the Powerful One. I shall sit beside her Who is in the great breath of the sky! --The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Spell 23)

Freedom Lost

Now that the Atomic Age has apparently passed, future historians may well coin this the Shopping Center Age, the United States of the Mall, the New Mall-en-nium. Love them of loathe them, malls are a major economic force and a modern fact of life, a powerfully pervasive--and privately controlled--cultural phenomenon. These placeless, misplaced Main Streets are no longer part of the community, someone once said, they are the community. --Excerpt from The Mall-aise of America by Jeff Huebner, 1992

Way of the Wolf

Song of the Wolf - Silent, sleek, savagely swift on the watchful hunt. Locking eyes with the chosen one to see who yields to the final call. While the stars wheel on their course we are at one with that primal force. O Pure Brothers, a sacrifice to the gods of survival.

Dark Emblem

"I have broken the rainbow against my heart... I have blown the clouds of rose color and blood color I have drowned my dreams" --Luis Munoz Marin First elected Governor of Peurto Rico

"All things are taken from us, and become portions and parcels of the dreadful past." --Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Starfall

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works if darkness, and let us put on armor if light. ---Romans 13:12

Gemini Rising (The Baronies Trilogy Book I)

There is no one people in the history of the world to whom gaining their independence had not brought forth the tortures which ancient poets and theologians reserved for the damned. --Sir Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm, 1936

Gaia's Demise (The Baronies Trilogy Book II)

...for when all the strong elements, military and futile, were unhinged, mighty forces became adrift, and the void was open. And after a pause, into the void strode a maniac of ferocious genius, the repository and expression of the most virulent hatred that has ever corroded the human heart. The door of opportunity was open, the dreamful time was at hand, and God helped us, it was all about to begin once more..... --Sir Winston Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, 1938

Shadow Fortress (The Skydark Chronicles Book III)

Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death, Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was... --Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-1892

Separation

Most people are on the world, not in it--have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them--undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate. --John Muir 1838-1912

Ritual Chill (Altered States Book I)

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil. --Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822

Sky Raider

Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies. ---Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha(1.3.6)

Remember Tomorrow

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach. ---Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon, 1651-1715

Desert Kings

Through the travail of the ages, Midst the pomp and toil of war, Have I fought and strove and perished Countless times upon this star. ---General George S. Patton 1885-1945

Apocalypse Unborn

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible the the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves...in comparison. --Heinrich Heine 1797-1856

Dark Resurrection (Empire of Xibalba Book II)

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection. --Arthur Schopenhaur 1788-1860

Eden's Twilight

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way. --John Milton, 1608-1674

Desolation Crossing

The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentence to her lover, And wring his bosom, is--to die. --Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774

Alpha Wave

Hitherto every form of society has been based... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. But in order to oppress a class, certain conditions must be assured to it under which it can, at least, continue it's slavish existence. --Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto 1848

Time Castaways

I come to do the deed that must be done-- Nor thou, nor sheltering angels, could prevent me. --C.R. Maturin, 1780-1824

Prophecy

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. --Erich Fromm 1900-1980

Arcadian's Asylum

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neith is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them--and then, the opportunity to choose. --C.Wright Mills 1916-1962

Baptism of Rage

Youth is wasted on the young. --George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

Doom Helix

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been. John H. Reagan 1881-1905

Playfair's Axiom

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. --Epicurus 3rd Century BCE

Tainted Cascade

Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished: many civilizations have climbed to power and glory on the backs of slaves. In other times slaves have dwindled in number and economic importance. But never has slavery disappeared. --Milton Meltzer 1915-2009 Slavery: A World History

Perception Fault

Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the "dragon," in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage. --D. H. Lawrence 1885-1930

Palaces of Light

(Not Released until May 2012)

Wretched Earth

(Not Released until July 2012)

Crimson Waters

(Release date not revealed yet)