Silk Road Quotes

“Nestorius.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“They found him in the cloister, lying on his back with ice in his beard. He was half conscious, muttering about a Templar knight, a secret commission from the Pope, and a beautiful woman on a white pony.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“His fellow monks carried him back to his cell and laid him on the hard cot that had been his bed for the last twenty years. He was an old man now and there was nothing to be done. His eyes had the cold sheen of death. A brother went to fetch the abbot so that the old fellow might make his last confession.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“and may your stalk turn into a chicken and eat your testicles a peck at a time!”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“Empires are built and will crumble; even Genghis Khan did not live forever.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“What good is religion without magic?”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“He taught that everything is transient, that happiness and youth can never last, that all life is suffering, and we are trapped by an endless cycle of birth and rebirth. If you have a good life, your next life will be better. If you do bad things, you will return next as a beggar, or a beast of burden perhaps. But only by giving up all desire can you escape the endless wheel and reach heaven.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“To begin the affair, a spokesman from each faction was to give a brief account of his own religion and afterwards they would debate in open forum.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road

“The world may be conquered from horseback, but it cannot be ruled from it.”
― Colin Falconer, Silk Road