C.R.R. Hillin > Quotes

“You picked the wrong day to fuck with me.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Orphan's Code

“Even if you wanted to, even if you tried, you can't forget the people that are important to you.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Orphan's Code

“You have no idea what I am now,” she told him. “You have no idea what I’ve become. You never knew the first thing about me! You people just locked me up and trapped you in there with you, and then you acted like you were the boss of me, like I was just some stupid kid. But I told you, didn’t I? I told you right at the start that I’ve killed before, and I’d kill again.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“It wasn't his fault. He only did what anchors do: he weighed her down.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“Some people aren't designed to pretend.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“Fire, never fear.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Orphan's King

“Why can't anyone be decent? It was a question he had asked himself a thousand times.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“Only fire, never fear.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Orphan's Code

“Go on and strike me while you can. Strike me down now, and soothe yourself with that. Tell yourself that it will fix everything. Lie to yourself all you want, Romero, but I warn you: you will come to regret it.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“The future is dreadfully uncertain. Every choice that you make can change the course of your life completely, or even the course of history.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“Sometimes all you can do is salvage as much of the wreckage as you can.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“Keep my name out of your mouth.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“We are not defined by who we love.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“They deserved it.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Orphan's Code

“I bet you wouldn’t call me a monster now, would ya?” she said quietly. “Not after what they did. You woulda done anything to get away from that. You woulda killed anyone you had to. Maybe even some people that you didn’t. I think you get it now.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Orphan's Code

“You can't keep me here. I'm warning you now--the harder you try, the harder you'll fail.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“Human beings are quite capable of destroying everything on their own.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“Don't give in to fear. The worst thing life can throw your way is death.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Orphan's Code

“On this day, he shall be burned alive 'til naught remains but ashes.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Orphan's Code

“It was truly good to stand atop the mountain. The only problem was the fall.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“You do not speak; you are spun from words. You have paper in your heart and ink in your blood. Some people have stories to tell, but you? You are the story.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“A hundred thousand stars above fade and glow, fade and glow
a hundred thousand tiny lights that point me where I need to go
Over mountains, through the snow,
from treach'rous paths to the roads I know
But the one bright star that leads me home
When it fades, when it fades,
where am I to go?”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Orphan's Code

“It's what men always did: give them enough rope, and they'd always find a way to hang themselves with it.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Orphan's Code

“The fight was over, and he had lost.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Orphan's Code

“In his way, he's a prisoner, too. But then, aren't we all?”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“Most people encounter death every day, and escape it only by accident. And none of them ever seem to notice. That is just how life is.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“Scars are the secrets that are too heavy to speak.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“This is but a gilded cage, and we are bound by silken chains.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“You have no idea what I've become.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose

“I'm the Black Death. And what I do is, I get rid of scum.”
― C.R.R. Hillin, The Sword and the Rose