Sylvain Reynard > Sylvain's Quotes

“I'm no longer the prey. I'm the predator.”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Man in the Black Suit

“I am a lot of things, mademoiselle, but I am not without honor. I'm not a thug, and I'm certainly not a thief.”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Man in the Black Suit

“Think of me as Robin Hood in a suit.”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Man in the Black Suit

“Wanting someone, needing someone, isn't a vice.”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Man in the Black Suit

“What a beautiful heart you have,” he whispered as he held her tightly.”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Man in the Black Suit

“Kindness is never wasted.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“Truth sets one free, but love casts out fear.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Rapture

“Facilis descensus Averni.”
― Virgil

“Beauty is vain. It appears and, like the wind, it's gone. Remember that.”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Raven

“Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra,”
― Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova

“Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
― Virgil

“Sometimes goodness doesn't tell everything it knows. Sometimes goodness waits for the appropriate time and does the best it can with what it has.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

“Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always”
― Dante

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Why not think that sometimes—just sometimes—you can overcome evil with silence? And let people hear their hatefulness in their own ears, without distraction. Maybe goodness is enough to expose evil for what it really is, sometimes.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“You blossom under kindness, don't you? Like a rose.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“That was before I decided to bring an angel to my bed.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“When I told you that I was intending to worship you with my body, I meant it. With all my heart. I will never take from you. I will only give. In my bed and outside of it.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“Look at me. Look into my eyes." His eyes fixed on hers as they fluttered open.
"I'll give you anything. My body, my soul, Take them. Take everything.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“She wanted more. More of him. More of this and them...she wanted to see him come apart above her and know that they had done this together.
She wanted to find their own beautiful rhythm. The music swirled and rose about them, a tempting pace she was eager to match.
She smiled, and he felt her smile travel all the way to his heart, allaying his worries.
Without breaking eye contact, he began to move in and out maddeningly slowly.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“Look at me. I want to see your eyes when you come.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“Miss Mitchell had a lovely voice, it was true, but Miss Mitchell speaking Italian was something celestial. Her ruby mouth opening and closing, the delicate way she almost sang the words, her tongue peeking out to wet her lips from time to time...Professor Emerson had to remind himself to close his mouth after it had dropped open.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“And the Angelfucker makes his move.”
― Sylvain Reynard

“You can’t do it, can you? Your skin remembers me, and so does your heart. You told them to forget, but they can’t. Remember me, Beatrice. Remember your first.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“When I am an old man and I can remember nothing else, I will remember this moment. The first time my eyes beheld an angel in the flesh. “I will remember your body and your eyes, your beautiful face and breasts, your curves and this.” He traced his hand around her navel before dragging it lightly to the top of her lower curls. “I will remember your scent and your touch and how it felt to love you. But most of all, I will remember how it felt to gaze at true beauty, both inside and out. For you are fair, my beloved, in soul and in body, generous of spirit and generous of heart. And I will never see anything this side of heaven more beautiful tham you”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“I want to make love to you because I care about you. I want to worship your naked body with my own and learn all of your secrets. I want to please you, not for minutes, but for hours and even days. I want to see you arch your back in ecstasy and look into your eyes when I make you come.”
― Sylvain Reynard

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

“I wandered in the darkness looking for something better, something real. I found you, and I'll be damned if I'm going to lose you.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Rapture