Adrian G Hilder > Adrian's Quotes

“A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.”
― Adrian G. Hilder, The General's Legacy, Part One: Inheritance

“Patience is all that I have had for fifteen years, more grey hairs, rotted teeth and the continuing decline of my Kingdom my only reward. Patience, Magnar, has overdue debts to be paid.
(King Klonag)”
― Adrian G. Hilder, The General's Legacy, Part One: Inheritance

“I think there comes a point when the outcome of a battle is inevitable but the fighting has not ended. Then the enemy becomes exhaustion and pain. A common enemy. Does the soldier holding in his entrails and facing the death reaper, care any longer what he fought for?” said Quain.”
― Adrian G. Hilder, The General's Legacy - Part Two: Whiteland King

“As the dry thirst for water, the starving hunger for food and lungs demand air to breathe, the one thing a soul truly craves is freedom.”
― Adrian G. Hilder, The General's Legacy - Part Two: Whiteland King

“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”
― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

“A revolutionary war of freedom, he said” Hiawatha responded crisply, “and I agree… does Superman ever fly to Thailand and free the kids slaving in the sweat shops owned by the rich corporations? No, he doesn’t. Does Batman ever break into prison and free the wrongfully convicted and over sentenced black man whose rights were trampled on when he was incarcerated? No, he doesn’t. Does Spider man ever break into a house in suburbia and beat up the abusive and violent husband? No, he doesn’t.”

“Do the Fantastic Four ever fly out to third world countries and defend the rights of the poor civilians against greedy American corporations? No, they don’t,” said the Pirate, not to be outdone.

“They’re all just tools used by the state to maintain the status quo,” said Hiawatha.”
― Arun D. Ellis, Corpalism

“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Because, if you haven’t wrapped your head around this principle, chances are you’ll never sell a story.”
― Larry Brooks, Story Engineering

“The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“I'm going to let that slide because you seemed to have been in the middle of being eaten by a monster.” He was clutching his midsection as if from pain, the squashed remnants of a soft brown cookie squeezing between his fingers as though dough from a pasta machine.”
― BMB Johnson, Melody Jackson v. the Hound from Hell