Val Tobin > Val's Quotes

“One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.”
― J. A. Konrath

“If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.”
― Joe Konrath

“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control; About who is
snapping the whip, who is saying no, and who is saying go. Censorship's bottom line is this: if the novel Christine offends me, I don't want just to make sure it's kept from my kid; I want to make sure it's kept from your kid, as well, and all the kids. This bit of intellectual arrogance, undemocratic and as old as time, is best expressed this way: "If it's bad for me and my family, it's bad for everyone's family."

Yet when books are run out of school classrooms and even out of school libraries as a result of this idea, I'm never much disturbed not as a citizen, not as a writer, not even as a schoolteacher . . . which I used to be. What I tell kids is, Don't get mad, get even. Don't spend time waving signs or carrying petitions around the neighborhood. Instead, run, don't walk, to the nearest nonschool library or to the local bookstore and get whatever it was that they banned. Read whatever they're trying to keep out of your eyes and your brain, because that's exactly what you need to know.”
― Stephen King

“It’ll be a long night,” he responded, “but I promise you the wait will be worth it.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“What difference could one person make in a world going to hell?”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“Your Highness,” Alina said. “It’s our duty to die for you if we must.”
Dakota shook her head. “Well, then, you mustn’t.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“Terrific. The world needs a lovestruck vampire.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“She could kill them if she wanted to, so quickly they wouldn’t realize they were dead until they met the God they worshipped, the God she wanted to believe in.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“I have no shortage of stupid ideas.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“Thank you. And I’m sorry. Sorry for what we lost and sorry because we can’t see each other again.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“That relieved him, even if it meant Prince Douchebag was fine.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“This is the last time I cower behind a guard while my husband confronts danger.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“A princess isn’t a person, Your Highness. She’s a figurehead. Never forget it.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“Sometimes, when the stress became unbearable, she wished she hadn’t forbidden Josh from visiting again. She’d have liked another opportunity to throttle him.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“She stepped forward and put her soft, cold hand on him. He almost fell to his knees.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“Part of him wrestled to take back control, but another part of him wanted to surrender completely and do whatever she desired.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“How many layers are you wearing? Are women’s garments deliberately designed to stymie a man?”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“Why is it that people are engineered to live just long enough to pile up a lifetime of mistakes, but not long enough to fix them? If only we were like trees...If only we had centuries. Maybe then there'd be time enough for us to mend all the harm we have done.”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood

“...why is it, she wonders...that we expect our children to be the ones to halt deforestation and species extinction and to rescue our planet tomorrow, when we are the ones overseeing its destruction today?”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood

“A person seldom knows they're starved for something until they get a taste of it.”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood

“So know this: your father loved you with everything he had. He just didn't have much left.”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood

“Because there’s nothing like poverty to teach you just how much of a luxury integrity truly is.”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood

“I do not want you because you are mine. I want you because I am yours.”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood

“You made me love you. You were a shit mother, but I loved you anyway. Then you betrayed me. Treated me as if I were nothing to you.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“God in Heaven, woman.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“And if you couldn’t trust your own family, then who could you trust?”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“He hadn’t known just how erotic letting vampire feed from you could be.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“I don’t want my friends to fear speaking their minds around me. What do you think I’ll do if you anger me? Have you beheaded?”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“Working for a mob boss might finally work to his benefit.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain

“You always know how to get my blood pumping.”
She gasped on a surge of lust. “So do you husband,” she whispered back. “So do you.”
― Val Tobin, The Empress: A Promise of Rain