Kent Corlain > Kent's Quotes

“She was a troublemaker and a sneak. Insubordinate, vicious. A foul-mouthed, cat-eyed little misfit.”
― Marc Behm, Eye of the Beholder

“War doesn’t have a kingdom,” she said. “War belongs to the whole world. Come on, my little scarlet Horseman. Have a drink.”
― Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History

“There aren’t any ‘warriors’ on a battlefield.” Her scornful voice ran on, trembling, in rough Carthaginian, and she let it: “There’s you and your buddy, and you and your mates, and you and your boss. A lance. The smallest unit on the field is eight or ten men. Nobody’s a hero on their own. One man alone out there is dead meat.”
― Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History

“On the ride over I listened to my favorite driving soundtrack—the dead static at the end of the AM spectrum, turned all the way up.”
― Kristopher Triana, Full Brutal

“The word bara has no gender,” I said. “And the world elohim might be plural. What if the real meaning was, ‘In the beginning, she created the gods?”
― S.P. Somtow, Other Edens: Novellas of the Fall

“Seducing your friend’s sister behind his back is just not done, Blandford. ‘’Tis what distinguishes us from the French.”
― Jemahl Evans, The Last Roundhead

“Now grandfather Satan’s wife was called Phyllis: and apart from having wings like a bat’s, she was the loveliest little slip of devilishness that Jurgen had seen in a long while.”
― James Branch Cabell, Jurgen A Comedy of Justice

“Sabotaging people romantically might seem timid compared to crushing their skulls with toilet tank lids, but hurting people is an art, and I enjoyed it in all its many forms.”
― Kristopher Triana, Full Brutal

“So it was, your majesty, that I forever relinquished my sewing, and became a lovely peril, a flashing desolation, and an evil which smites by night, in spite of my abhorrence of irregular hours: and what I do I dislike extremely, for it is a sad fate to become a vampire, and still to sympathize with your victims, and particularly with their poor mothers.”
― James Branch Cabell, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice

“Please behave tonight, drink not overmuch. Put not your knife in your mouth, and no rude tales. Especially not the Turk in Lesbos one, which I am certain is not physically possible.”
― Jemahl Evans, The Last Roundhead

“Are you a human yourself?”

No.

“Are you one of the following: leper, witch or cultist, undead, werewolf, mutant, bureaucrat, bard?”
― Juho Pohjalainen, The Straggler's Mask

“She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a came of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

“I have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you."
How beautiful she looked in the moonlight!
Shy and strange was the look with which she quickly hid her face in my neck and hair, with tumultuous sighs, that seemed almost to sob, and pressed in mine a hand that trembled.
Her soft cheek was glowing against mine. "Darling, darling," she murmured, "I live in you; and you would die for me, I love you so."
I started from her.
She was gazing on me with eyes from which all fire, all meaning had flown, and a face colorless and apathetic.
"Is there a chill in the air, dear?" she said drowsily. "I almost shiver; have I been dreaming? Let us come in. Come; come; come in.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration. It was like the ardor of a lover; it embarrassed me; it was hateful and yet over-powering; and with gloating eyes she drew me to her, and her hot lips traveled along my cheek in kisses; and she would whisper, almost in sobs, "You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever." Then she had thrown herself back in her chair, with her small hands over her eyes, leaving me trembling.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“Then, too, he had a sort of prejudice against the way in which Florimel spent her time in seducing and murdering young men. It was not possible, of course, actually to blame the girl, since she was the victim of circumstances, and had no choice about becoming a vampire, once the cat had jumped over her coffin. Still, Jurgen always felt, in his illogical masculine way, that her vocation was not nice. And equally in the illogical way of men, did he persist in coaxing Florimel to tell him of her vampiric transactions, in spite of his underlying feeling that he would prefer to have his wife engaged in some other trade: and the merry little creature would humor him willingly enough, with her purple eyes a-sparkle, and with her vivid lips curling prettily back, so as to show her tiny white sharp teeth quite plainly.”
― James Branch Cabell, Jurgen A Comedy of Justice

“Only look ye yonder, see ye those mountains? There’s elves live there, that there is their kingdom. Their palaces, hear ye, are all of pure gold. Oh aye, sir! Elves, I tell ye. ’Tis awful. He who yonder goes, never returns.’

‘I thought so,’ said Geralt coldly. ‘Which is precisely why I don’t intend going there.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“It’s all the old tales sailors tell about Finns. How they are a race of magicians and warlocks. How they can sing up a storm any time they’ve a mind to. Why, back in the old sailing days you’d be hard put to find a captain who would sign up a Finn—or a crew who would tolerate having him aboard!”
― Emil Petaja

“Say as they will; Mars may or may not be the planet of war; Jupiter may or may not preside over the plane of judicial intellect; and Mercury may or may not rule the selves of mechanics and inventors and those of excitable, volatile natures—but this is certain: Earth, that gray old planet that shines with the strange green radiance in the night skies, is unquestionably the abode of the true adventurers.”
― Nictzin Dyalhis

“We rode the queerest steeds imaginable. Huge birds they were, more like enormous game-cocks than aught else I can compare them to; with longer, thicker spurs and bigger beaks. Ugly-tempered, too. Zarf said they’d fight viciously whenever it came to close quarters. And how those big birds could run!”
― Nictzin Dyalhis

“The Ferals remain nameless until after their first kill,” Moog explained hurriedly. “They must consume the entire body themselves, after which they adopt that person’s name, regardless of gender. It’s not unusual to meet women with names like William or Todd. A man with a woman’s name is quite rare, actually. Probably because women are rarely stupid enough to get killed by cannibals in the first place.”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

“With your strength, my lady, teeth can crush flint.”
― Enheduanna, The Exaltation of Inanna

“Ereshkigal fixed to Inanna the Death Eye. So too she pronounced the Word of Doom. She made against her the declaration of Guilt, and then beat her. Thus Inanna’s form became a listless carcass, a slab of rancid flesh. This was then taken and fastened to hang on a hook upon the wall.”
― Descent of Inanna

“First, the linguistic difficulties. Sumerian is neither a Semitic nor an Indo-European language. It belongs to the so-called agglutinative type of languages exemplified by Turkish, Hungarian, and Finnish.”
― Samuel Noah Kramer, Sumerian Mythology

“A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor.”
― George RR Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The star of Inanna watches over the road that finishes the one who walks it. The dark heart of the moon loves fiercely and infinitely and will carry your soul with its blessing to the residence of the anointed ones.”
― Christine Frost, Lords of Kur

“Considering the possibility of being doomed to the state of a Jiki-ketsu-gaki, I want to have my chance of being reborn in some bamboo flower-cup, or mizutame, whence I might issue softly, singing my thin and pungent song, to bite some people that I know.”
― Lafcadio Hearn

“An unarmed man with the right delusions can destroy cities. Of this I am living proof for I burned Ausfal.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Fire and Flesh

“If their armour was decorative it was because they believed they didn’t need it and, if they believed strongly enough, they really didn’t need it.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Fire and Flesh

“We get lots of girls in here now buying comics, games… well, except Magic the Gathering. Girls are smart enough to stay away from that shit.”
― C.D. Gallant-King, Hell Comes to Hogtown

“Any authority you may have is lessened by the unwashed stoner following you around, staring at my tits.”
― C.D. Gallant-King, Hell Comes to Hogtown