C.M. Craddock > C.M.'s Quotes

“We came to see Jace. Is he alright?"
"I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron.
"Not today, Mr. Weasley."
Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills,
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Blue Moon

“I used the knife.
I saved a child.
I won a war.
God forgive me.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it?
It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“I was having an emotion, and I hate that.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

“I will sing to you,” I whispered. “As your ship burns and your soul flees, I will sing. To the contest we had.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Starsight

“I’m not a man who is quick to smile, nor one who does so often, but there was something about hers. Something about the dimples it formed on her cheeks. The light that shined from her eyes and the white flash of her teeth, that drew one from my own lips with a force as inevitable as gravity”
― Cody Craddock, Cody Black Vampire Hunter: Bite of the Wolf

“Objectively to just look at them, I couldn’t tell you which one was more beautiful. Each woman has a type of beauty unique to herself and when that woman held as much as these two, trying to decide which one had more was an exercise in futility. However, beyond physical beauty, there is something more important, a second type of beauty that grows the longer you know someone. You appreciate them more with every interaction and smile. As you learn more about them and spend more time with them, it grows. This second type of beauty can augment the first, but its also its own separate thing. That second type of beauty is much more important than the first. And so, my eyes were drawn to Sierra.”
― C M Craddock, Cody Black Vampire Hunter: Bite of the Wolf

“You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”
― Stephen Chbosky