Quote by Mark Helprin

“He looked in disgust at the piles of sandbags surrounding peter the great's statue. He wanted to tear them off and let the "bronze…

— John Verlin Love

“Peter's hands had ceased trembling. He had been granted perspective. This was not Gethsemane: he wasn't headed for Golgotha, he was embarking on a…

— Michel Faber

“His name was Peter Lake, and he said to himself out loud, “You’re in bad shape when a horse takes pity on you, you…

— Mark Helprin

“The horse had a fly-net over its head and ears. It looked down on the paving-stones with the empty disappointed expression of an old…

— Wolfgang Koeppen

“Peter was dimly aware on some level that with each swing of his arm, the purity by which his youth was defined was shattering…

— Sean J. Quirk

“Around them the stubbled land was marked off by plaques and signs that explained to visitors what had happened here on a long-ago July…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“Still, he never felt that the sermons he wrote at the cottage were good. By the time he got back to Washington to preach…

— Catherine Marshall

“And Peter Lake knew that these things were nothing in themselves but the means by which to remember those he had loved, and to…

— Mark Helprin

“By the time they were done Peter realized that something significant had occurred, an acknowledgment that once made, could not be unmade. The body…

— Justin Cronin

“There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me to open them, and…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“I felt my mouth go dry, my throat constrict. What possible interpretation could Peter place on those words, other than that they were about…

— Jennifer Paynter

“...he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something that few…

— Gene Edwards