J > J's Quotes

“Solnyshko.”
― Charlaine Harris, A Longer Fall

“Time does not heal. Time just adds to the burden.”
― Jodi Taylor, Long Shadows

“She flooded my mind with thoughts of Borin, broken and dead in the dust, and it only made me stronger because I am Felda and I bear the grief of centuries as my burden and it makes me strong. I would break her for this. Her body jerked as I took control. I raised her hands to her face. I made her hook her own thumbs into the corners of her mouth and pull. I watched the blood flow, warm and wet. I made her drive her fingers into her eye sockets. She began to wail. And then I made her split her own face apart. I felt her skin rip. I heard her bones crack. I made her pull again. And again. As she had done to others, so I did to her. I watched as, with one giant movement, she pulled herself apart. Blood fountained up the walls. Things puddled out on to the floor. She had stopped making a noise, but I wasn’t ready to let her die yet. I stood over her. ‘I am Felda, Daughter of the Gods, and you, demon, are ended.’ A tiny piece of something in the wet, red accumulation of things that had once been a demon moved slightly. It might have been submission. It might have been a plea for mercy. It wasn’t important. I put my foot on it and ground it into nothing. It pleases men to believe their gods are good and kind and merciful. We are not. The other demon was easy. It tried to run but the very ties that bound it to Elizabeth prevented its escape. It begged for my mercy. I thought of the burden Elizabeth carried on my behalf. Every day. I looked at the demon that had cast its long shadow over her life and imagined how much lighter her life would be without it and that pleased me. I think it thought my hesitation meant I was considering its request for mercy. It tried to plead for its continued existence. Quite unsuccessfully.”
― Jodi Taylor, Long Shadows

“closed my eyes and dreamed of the red sun setting behind the white mountains and the cold, lonely sighing of the wind.”
― Jodi Taylor, Long Shadows

“Well, then, it seems the Almighty gifted you a functional brain. Huzzah and hurrah. They seem in rather short supply around this fucking place.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“One day as a lion is worth ten thousand as a lamb.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“A life without books is a life not lived.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“What a world this would be, were it not held wholly and solely in the grip of stubborn old men.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“if the Almighty offered me the platter of shit that constitutes divine motherhood and yet denied me the pleasure of a good roll in the hay beforehand, I’d have told him to go fuck himself.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“And then … music. “It began soft at first. A few notes echoing on bloodstained stone. But the chords slipped together into a bar, and the bar wove itself into a tune, and soon, I stood silent and amazed as that smattering of notes reached into the awful stillness and filled it.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“She was a blood witch.’ Chloe looked at me, green eyes wide. ‘Gabe, could she…”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Your voice will never feel so tiny as when you’re screaming at God,” he whispered.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Single strand of pearls, wild, not cultured. (Worth it, she said: only the wild ones had souls.)”
― Margaret Atwood, My Evil Mother

“I keep myself to myself,”
― Margaret Atwood, My Evil Mother

“Girls of that age can be quite sadistic.”
― Margaret Atwood, My Evil Mother

“Of course, everyone has a father—or, as they would say nowadays, a sperm provider,”
― Margaret Atwood, My Evil Mother

“Jack sat and then looked down at the card in his hand. Beautiful blues and greens edged out with delicate gold scrollwork. “Fine antiques and collectibles? How is that relevant to our case?”
― Kate Baray, Spirelli Paranormal Investigations: Episodes 4-6

“Remember the ancient curse: ‘May you live in interesting times.”
― Jamie Davis, Extreme Medical Services Box Set Vol 1 - 3: Medical Care of the Fringes of Humanity

“Sometimes, you just have to walk away and never look back.”
― Carolyn Haines, Them Bones

“The quality of light just before dusk on a clear winter day is loaded with poignancy. My mother had called it “the blue hour,” when melancholy slips into a room unnoticed and touches everything with a sprinkling of pain.”
― Carolyn Haines, Them Bones

“4 Danger Walks Among Us Mostly because of Sir Kipling’s scathing comments about frumpy old maids, Lily caved and wore a black cocktail dress instead of her normal pencil skirt suit. After all, she reasoned, she needed to blend in with the guests, and it was a black tie event. This little black dress was the kind every girl had languishing in the back of her closet, never worn yet prized for its potential.”
― Lydia Sherrer, Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Revelations

“Her hands were dry and leathery, but warm, and her grip strong, given character no doubt by the many hours spent tending her garden.”
― Lydia Sherrer, Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Legends

“Tyrian Purple”
― Gigi Pandian, The Alchemist's Illusion