💬 Quotes

"Time travel isn't a gift. It's a responsibility that feels an awful lot like a prison sentence."

"Secrets are like time travelers—they always find a way to leak into the present, no matter how hard you try to bury them."

"You don't need a history book to understand the past when you can walk right into it, but you do need a steady heart to survive it."

"You are a soldier, Bean. You don't have to be a hero, but you do have to be a soldier."

"The mind is a labyrinth, Kreizler. And in the dark corners of the soul, we are all capable of becoming the monsters we fear most."

"We are looking for a man who lives in the shadow of his own making, a man who believes he is performing a necessary ritual in a world that has forgotten the meaning of order."

"The city is a cauldron of ambition and filth, a place where the light of progress only serves to cast longer, deeper shadows over those who dwell in its gutters."

"To understand the criminal, one must be prepared to look not at the act itself, but at the childhood that forged the instrument of that act."

"A man's past is not a map of where he has been, but a blueprint of why he is exactly who he is today."

"Logic is the only weapon we have against the chaos of human depravity; without it, we are merely observers of our own destruction."

"A man who lives with his hoss and his gun, out in the sage and the wind, gets to feel different about things."

"Texas was a great, raw, brawny empire, where men worked out their own salvation with blood and iron."

"The past was a dead trail, and the future was a dark canyon. Only the present moment, with its swift decisions and smoking guns, belonged to him."

"Vengeance is a rust that eats into a man's soul until there's nothing left of him but hate."

"Law and order were coming to the border, slow and hard, through a red haze of war."

"There is a courage born of despair that is deadlier than the courage of hope."

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and hope."

"Kings are but men, and men are but dust."

"Time is a great master; it fixes all things, sets all things right, and finally does justice to all."

"There are griefs which resemble deep rivers: the water is silent, transparent, and formidable."