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Quotes from The Bone House — Stephen R. Lawhead

born 1950 United States

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14 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)

Little Archie’s story is darker, more desperate, and yet drearily familiar.

The Bone House (2011)

“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)

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)

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)

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.

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How very bright this empire of stars, he mused. Which poet had said that?

The Bone House (2011)

His last thought, as sleep overtook him, was that it was true what Cosimo had said: the universe was far stranger than anyone imagined, or could imagine.

The Bone House (2011)

If her hunch was right, the earl’s explorations were connected in some way to ley travel: that peculiar phenomenon that had plucked her from the twenty-first century and dropped her so rudely into the seventeenth.

The Bone House (2011)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen R. Lawhead (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.