33 quotes
“Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.”
The Bone House (2011)
The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.
The Bone House (2011)
The great hulking eminence of the stone-age mound stood out as an ominous dark shadow.
The Bone House (2011)
You see, this universe we inhabit is made up of billions of galaxies—literally beyond counting—and this is only one universe.
The Skin Map (2010)
Little Archie’s story is darker, more desperate, and yet drearily familiar.
The Bone House (2011)
“If the heat doesn’t kill you,” he mused, “the flies surely will.”
The Skin Map (2010)
Here’s to dodgy adventures with disreputable relatives!
The Skin Map (2010)
But isn’t that hazardous—messing with events?
The Skin Map (2010)
Getting lost is the least of your worries.
The Skin Map (2010)
I’ve moved heaven and earth to find you.
The Skin Map (2010)
“Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.”
The Bone House (2011)
“None of us ever knows what impact we have on the world around us.”
The Bone House (2011)
A ley line is what might be called a field of force, a trail of telluric energy. There are hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, all over Britain, and they’ve been around since the Stone Age.
The Skin Map (2010)
It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.
The Bone House (2011)
Certainty sent a sick dread snaking through his gut: he was being stalked.
The Bone House (2011)
The very idea of a near-infinite array of universes made his head swim.
The Skin Map (2010)
Once again he felt the now-familiar tingle on his skin, as when, just before a lightning strike, the air becomes electrically charged.
The Bone House (2011)
A favourite saying in China—which she had heard on occasion from her own grandmother—was that the threads of life are easy to weave, but difficult to untangle.
The Bone House (2011)
People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen.
The Skin Map (2010)
Before Egypt, long before travelling to that time and place—or any other—became even a remote possibility, Mina had paid her dues. Haltingly, painstakingly, maddeningly.
The Bone House (2011)