Bradley Lloyd > Bradley's Quotes

“Beware the inveterate punster, Doyle, it’s a sure sign of brewing mental disturbance.”
― Mark Frost, The List of 7

“At this range, my bolt will cut through your armor as if it were cheese.” “Cheese can’t cut through armor, Sir Simon.”
― Roberto Calas, Emaculum

“There wasn’t a lot of time to wait for Michael, but it made the most of itself, stretching like a rubber band, every second longer than the last.”
― Alex Beecroft, Trowchester Blues

“Her coat was one of those ghastly skiing things, quilted and stuffed with microfibres for warmth. She looked like a larva in it.”
― Alex Beecroft, Trowchester Blues

“But I fell back on those immortal words at the base of all good decision making: Fuck it.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“Everyone hates him. Me – I think I can see the sun shine when he bends over.”
― Mo Hayder, Pig Island

“I hooked the condom out with the end of a spoon and dropped it into the bottom of a white bin-bag, where it lay, dried out and brown, as transparent as old human skin.”
― Mo Hayder, Pig Island

“two groins bumping together, hard cocks straining for something other than a brush and a thought.”
― Jenn Burke, Chaos Station

“Death was bleach and it burned away the stains, leaving nothing but white.”
― Lee Thomas, Butcher's Road

“Minds weren't pictures at an exhibition, all numbered, and hung in order of influence, one marked "Cunning," the next, "Impressionable." They were scrawls; they were sprawling splashes of graffiti, unpredictable, unconfinable.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Vol. 1

“There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volume Two

“He liked the phrase “mother’s tit.” It said so much, so simply. Momma’s tit had a good deal more power to move these men than her apple pie.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 2

“This kind of business (murder) required detachment. The trick was to do it almost casually, as you might flick on the radio, or swat a mosquito.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 4

“Men’s supply of passion, she knew from long experience, was easily depleted. Though they might threaten to move earth and heaven too, half an hour later their boasts would be damp sheets and resentment.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 4

“We're living; but we impersonate the dead better than the dead themselves.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 6

“Muck held the whip hand.”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“This was the nadir, surely. They had no further to fall.”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“was enough to know they had no Devil on their backs. Just old humanity, cheated of love, and ready to pull down the world on its head.”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“his whole body was jammed tight as a monk’s jockstrap.”
― Robert McCammon, Swan Song

“Everyone,” Caitlin said, cradling her wine glass, “is the hero of his own story. That goes double for fanatics. Some of the greatest horrors in history were perpetrated by people who insisted, all the way to damnation’s door, that they fought on the side of the angels.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Long Way Down

“Boys, I decided, simply have a given amount of rudeness they must express.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“We were both raised in the One Faith, and ever the specter of sin hung over us. But not even God Himself can come between a girl and a boy truly in want of each other. No scripture or king or law on earth has that power.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Do you know what irony is, de León?” “They make swords out of it, don’t they? Mix it with coally and hit it with a hammery?”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Curiosity had killed countless cats, I knew. But cats had nine lives, and lions too.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Whatever you did as a boy, you’re him no longer. Your past is stone, but your future is clay. And you decide the shape of the life you’ll make.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“HERE’S A TRUTH about sword fighting, coldblood: Even if you’re bad at it, when the person you’re fighting doesn’t have one? You’re still going to be pretty good.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“But when there’s little you can do, do what little you can.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Mia opened her arms, willed the shadows to rise, wrap the bodies up and drag them off into the darkness. She almost wished she could stay and watch as their comrades returned, finding only bloodstains to mark their passing. Watch as the first seeds of fear took root, and these men realized just how far they were from home. That the Dark around them was not only angry. It was hungry.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“The heavens grant us only one life, but through books, we live a thousand.”
― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave