John Christopher Quotes

Truth does not surround itself with lies.

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

Some people are oil and water.

Before you have faith you must believe, and before you believe there must be evidence of some sort to persuade the mind. Faith is remembering that evidence and holding to it against all that seems to challenge or contradict it.

More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world.

Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.

A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.

What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.