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  • #1
    Lisa Shearin
    “Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.”
    Lisa Shearin, Armed & Magical

  • #2
    Lisa Shearin
    “Sometimes I hated it when I was right, but I always hated it when someone else was. Especially when their being right made me wrong. I’m irrational that way. It’s something I’m working on.”
    Lisa Shearin, Magic Lost, Trouble Found

  • #3
    Lisa Shearin
    “There was a momentary lull in the shooting and spellslinging, and the kid started scrambling to his feet. I grabbed his arm and pulled him back down. “In my family that’s not silence; it’s reloading.”
    Lisa Shearin, Armed & Magical
    tags: humor

  • #4
    Lisa Shearin
    “You wearing a thigh sheath?”
    “Now what would be the sense of wearing just one? I have two thighs.”
    Lisa Shearin, Armed & Magical

  • #5
    Lisa Shearin
    “Mychael said the rock’s not affecting you, and from what I’m seeing I’m inclined to agree.”
    “I beg to differ.”
    “Feeling evil?” Justinius asked.
    “No.”
    “Having an urge to overthrow governments, kill thousands?”
    “No and no.”
    “Take over the world?”
    “Too much work.”
    Lisa Shearin, Armed & Magical

  • #6
    Michelle Sagara West
    “Manners,[...] are severely underappreciated in my opinion".
    "Oh?"
    "Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Believe that on occasion that much death can become tedious.”
    Michelle Sagara West, Cast in Silence

  • #7
    Michelle Sagara West
    “I'm missing something, aren't I?"
    "Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours."
    "Tell him I'm dead.”
    Michelle Sagara West, Cast in Shadow

  • #8
    Lori Handeland
    “I'm not exactly certain what got into me, besides him.”
    Lori Handeland, Apocalypse Happens

  • #9
    Scott Lynch
    “... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it."

    "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'"

    "Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo.

    "The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ..."

    "... is Locke ..."

    "... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ..."

    "... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #10
    Jim  Butcher
    “I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.”
    Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

  • #11
    Kevin Hearne
    “I didn't respond, because naked people never win arguments.”
    Kevin Hearne, Clan Rathskeller

  • #12
    Kevin Hearne
    “My neighbor raised a shaking index finger to point at the saguaro. "That moving cactus...and the big bug...and you, you spooky bastard. What are you?

    I stuffed my hands in my pockets and grinned winningly at him. "Why, I'm the Antichrist, of course.”
    Kevin Hearne, Hexed
    tags: humor

  • #13
    Kevin Hearne
    “Yes and I appreciate it. But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy.”
    Kevin Hearne, Hexed

  • #14
    Kevin Hearne
    “Tell her I am Peace Dawg but I think her cats are closely allied with The Man.
    I'm going to stick it to them.”
    Kevin Hearne, Hexed

  • #15
    Kevin Hearne
    “I hoped you would consider it seriously instead of laughing at it.'

    'Mr. Chamkanni said much the same thing in bed the first night home from the
    hospital”
    Kevin Hearne, Hexed

  • #16
    Victoria Laurie
    “I miss you when you’re not around,’ he said. ‘I can’t sleep when you’re not next to me, and I worry a lot about what you’re up to.”
    Victoria Laurie

  • #17
    Victoria Laurie
    “And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View”
    Victoria Laurie

  • #18
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #19
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
    Robert Heinlein

  • #20
    Philip K. Dick
    “The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.”
    Philip K. Dick

  • #21
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
    Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: rah

  • #22
    Philip K. Dick
    “Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.”
    Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

  • #23
    D.D. Barant
    “I look over at him. He stares straight ahead.
    "So," I say. "Golem, huh?"
    "I prefer the term 'Mineral-American.”
    D.D. Barant, Dying Bites
    tags: humor

  • #24
    D.D. Barant
    “Yeah? Feels like we just traded one set of rumors for another. We still have no idea where he is, what his plans are, or even what he looks like."
    Patience, dear girl, patience."
    Easy for you to say. You're immortal.”
    DD Barant

  • #25
    D.D. Barant
    “How...how are you doing, Jace?'
    Holding on. Just barely. Charlie?'
    Charlie's tone is almost conversational. 'Kind of getting the urge to kill both of you. Think I'm gonna head back.'
    Sure, okay, no problem.'
    Yeah, yeah, good idea. You do that.”
    D.D. Barant



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