Jon > Jon's Quotes

“Not everyone is an artist but everyone is a fucking critic.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“I won’t be your dog, but if you’re half the wolf I think you are, you’ve found a fox to run with.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

“When listening for danger, one must never mistake silence for safety.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

“the rich hold grudges the poor can’t afford,”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

“Spear had picked up her lost hand and run into the forest like she knew a sewer-on of hands whose shop closed soon.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

“if she had to summon a smile to put out a fire, half the town would burn.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

“Monarchy is a bad system because, no matter how smart you are, you can still squirt a moron out of your plumbing. Maybe you get lucky and your son or daughter is at least half as smart as you--what about your grandchild? Probably a knob, and when they inherit the throne, everything you built falls to shyte.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

“We know too much about the gods to hope for their benevolence, do we not?”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West