Brom Bones > Brom's Quotes

“It is a frightening thought, that in one fraction of a moment you can fall in the kind of love that takes a lifetime to get over.”
― Beau Taplin

“Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it.”
― Beau Taplin

“I learned much too late
that what you called love
was nothing but a
desperate and irrational
fear of a life lived alone.”
― Beau Taplin

“There’s a corner of my heart that is yours. And I don’t mean for now, or until I’ve found somebody else, I mean forever. I mean to say that whether I fall in love a thousand times over or once or never again, there’ll always be a small quiet place in my heart that belongs only to you.”
― Beau Taplin

“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal

“Vengeance was one hell of a roommate.”
― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover

“But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I rememeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visible.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Judging Eye

“Humanity was a passing notion to him; something he liked to try on for size and model in the dressing room, but never actually felt compelled to buy.”
― Jane Bled

“We keep the wolves outside by living well.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci

“Il vecchio mondo sta morendo. Quello nuovo tarda a comparire. E in questo chiaroscuro nascono i mostri.”
― Antonio Gramsci

“If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon