David > David's Quotes

“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“You have learned much, Karsa Orlong."
"I have, T'lan Imass. As you shall witness.”
― Steven Erikson, House of Chains

“No — other men's eye's don't do anything for me, I'm afraid." Sulu grinned.”
― A.C. Crispin, Yesterday's Son

“Doctor, what could you prescribe for Charlemund?”
The doctor looked down his nose at the unconscious form of the arch-diocel.
“Arsenic?”
“Now, really. Something to give him a quality headache and a great deal of memory loss.”
“Cyanide.”
― Brian McClellan, Promise of Blood

“You’ve one mark on your record,” Tamas said. “You once punched a na-baron in the face. Broke his jaw. Tell me about that.”
Olem grimaced. “Officially, sir, I was pushing him out of the way of a runaway carriage. Saved his life. Half my company saw it.”
“With your fist?”
“Aye.”
“And unofficially?”
“The man was a git. He shot my dog because it startled his horse.”
“And if I ever have cause to shoot your dog?”
“I’ll punch you in the face.”
“Fair enough. You have the job.”
― Brian McClellan, Promise of Blood

“You missed the morning’s festivities,” Bo said to Adamat. “You call torturing a man ‘festivities’?” Adamat asked. “I’m not a good person,” Bo said.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“Look at her -- I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way -- what bliss.”
― Charles Addams

“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
― Charles Addams

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“The easiest way to do anything is properly.”
― K. J. Parker, The Proof House

“I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. “Been completely at a loss my whole life.” He hesitated. “I think it’s called being human, or something.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“Really, all we managed to do was to ride fast and not all die, but that itself felt as rewarding as routing the enemy, considering how quickly that trap closed around us. Despite my throbbing tongue, sweat pouring double time from every pore, and my heart racing faster than any horse’s, I couldn’t suppress a huge smile. Survival was the greatest prize of all. I wanted to yell, to cry, to drink, and yes, to whoop, loudly, maniacally. We’d lost men, we’d been bloodied and injured, but no matter what, we survived. And that felt as sweet and wonderful as anything I could imagine. I”
― Jeff Salyards, Chains of the Heretic

“Sleep, elusive as a ghost, plaintive as a widow, and as easy to hold as the wind.”
― Jeff Salyards

“And if that only inflames your curiosity, I say to you, a writer without curiosity is a bird without feathers.”
― Jeff Salyards, Scourge of the Betrayer

“I always have to shit before a fight.”
― Jeff Salyards, Scourge of the Betrayer

“Rumor's the slut you bend over a chair and never see again. Truth's the lady you wed.”
― Jeff Salyards, Veil of the Deserters

“There always seems to be an 'until'. That is one of life's harsh lessons.”
― Jeff Salyards, Veil of the Deserters

“Skeelana was just in front of me, and I found myself watching the way her hips shifted back and forth. Even on level ground, she had a bit of an involuntary sashay that was hard to turn away from, but watching her take the incline was almost hypnotic. I shook my head as I tripped over a root and forced myself to watch where I was going.”
― Jeff Salyards, Veil of the Deserters

“The years cool passions for some men, neutralize poison, soften the edges of grief and rage and prejudice. But for others, they hold on even tighter to the things that burn their insides out regardless of the passage of time, or even in spite of it, as if to curse the very world itself.”
― Jeff Salyards, Chains of the Heretic

“they passed through the wide-open gates into the city whose parents had hired a prostitute as a babysitter and never come home. The”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.

Which roughly translates as

Who will Guard the Guardians, or
Who watches the watchers.”
― Juvenal

“A choice between killing and dying is no choice at all. You have to be realistic about these things. b”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“You can never have too many knives.”
― Joe Ambercrombie