George D MacKinnon > George D's Quotes

“knew I couldn't take it back, I could only delay the awful realization from hitting my people. I never would have thought that it was the world I was failing," the king rambled. "Be still, Your Majesty. You are out of danger, but you will need to rest," Myranda said. "Your Majesty . . . Your Majesty! I am no king. I am barely a man. My name, my kingdom, my bloodline is tainted forever," he raged, throwing his crown to the ground.”
― Joseph R. Lallo, The Book of Deacon Anthology

“you never did understand that part, did you? I suppose now is as good a time as any. You thought the name for our race, for our kind, was D'karon. You were wrong. D'karon is a military term. It means ‘first wave.’ You thought you'd been facing an invasion. The invasion hadn't even begun," he explained, with a grin that cut to the soul. The vast field of black above him began to ripple. Whirls of clouds wafted and twisted, revealing whispers and glimpses of things unspeakable. Epidime's grin grew to a smile. "Until now," he added.”
― Joseph R. Lallo, The Book of Deacon Anthology

“I’d kept my bits tucked away 100% of the time for over four years, and every time I could for ten or more. I’d dreamed of being female all my life, fantasised of accidents, diseases, illnesses, anything that would take the decision out of my hands and result in me having nothing male between my legs. The last three years have been beyond liberating, I have experienced more love and acceptance than in my entire life before I started this process. It’s as if the real proof has been how friends and strangers alike have responded to me as Rachel.”
― Rachel Dover, And She Was: A Memoir Of Transition

“Where’s your sister?” she couldn’t hold back. She’d get the rest of the story later. What he had done to stay alive. But she had found one of her three and needed to know where the second was.”
― C Lowry, Chaos Zombie a post apocalyptic Boxset Adventures

“You going to stand here all day making goo goo eyes at us, or are we going to get moving?” Brian cracked a smile again. It was good advice. So they took it.”
― C Lowry, Chaos Zombie a post apocalyptic Boxset Adventures

“I saw a figure that awaited me in the portals. And I knew by the trailing robe of sea-purple, but by no other token, that the figure was Avyctes. For the face was no longer in its entirety the face of man, but was become a loathly fluid amalgam of human features with a thing not to be identified on earth. The transfiguration was ghastlier than death or the changes of decay; and the face was already hued with the nameless, corrupt and purulent color of the strange shadow, and had taken on, in respect to its outlines, a partial likeness to the squat profile of the shadow. The hands of the figure were not those of any terrene being; and the shape beneath the robe had lengthened with a nauseous undulant pliancy; and the face and fingers seemed to drip in the moon- light with a deliquescent corruption. And the pursuing umbrage, like a thickly flowing blight, had corroded and distorted the very shadow of Avyctes, which was now double in a manner not to be narrated here.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, Clark Ashton Smith’s Works

“Admiral Himura (EAS Fuzhou):  “There is no such thing as Senecan Federation ‘territory.’ You are all deserters and turncoats, and you will be treated as such. You need to be very, very careful what you do next, or you will find yourself with a war on your hands.” The Admiral’s voice bled barely controlled incredulity and rage. Unidentified (SFS Thermopylae):  “We do not desire a war. As stated in the declaration transmitted to Prime Minister Ioannou, the leadership of the Earth Alliance Assembly and EASC Board Chairman Breveski, we intend to institute our own government, one based on legitimate self-determination and the principles of freedom the Alliance once adhered to but has now abandoned.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Apogee

“as the Ides pushed their way into his sanctum with the greed and zeal of a banker extorting the poor.”
― V.M. Law, Cargo

“No one gets out of problems,” Alvarez said. “There’s no getting out of it. You can’t go around them, ignore them, hide from them. You can only go through it. Nothing changes until you do that.” Jitters didn’t look convinced. “S-s-sir, you don’t know what I’ve been going through.” “Maybe so. But whatever it is, you're not going through it. You're doing everything you can to get out of it, to go around it. Every attempt to avoid a problem only makes it worse.”
― C. Gockel, Call of Courage: 7 Novels of the Galactic Frontier

“Twelve voices were shouting in anger”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm