Talis Jones > Talis's Quotes

“The truth is a myriad of perspectives. None false to its owner, yet none true to its neighbor. Not quite. Not exactly.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“I wanted too much out of my life. I wanted so much that I ended up with nothing.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“Roars chanting for our souls fill my ears and I swallow back my fear one drop at a time. Let them come.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“Guilt tears a man into pieces. Shredding his soul one drink at a time all the while laughing.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“They fought with a trained formality and I was a rabid creature set loose upon them following no rules except savagery to end the fights as quick as I could. I left my humanity behind focused on one word: survive.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“Followers, soldiers, supporters. I have them all in vast numbers. But friends? They're a different sort of beast I am still learning to hunt.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“Tears aren't a display of weakness, they are a testimony of strength. Tears show the world that you can go through darkness and come out the other side victorious even if it hurts for a time. It proves that you have not let this earth tear away your heart.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“That's a lovely tune. What is it?" Jack inquired curiously.

"Your death march.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“Israfil was right. He'd always wait until it was too late because he was too afraid to forgive himself and too afraid to believe that anyone else could forgive him either. Fenwick was a ghost and Jack Cromwell was the devil dancing on his grave.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“I want to be the hero for once."

Titus gave him an appraising look. He ceased pacing and fixed his ancient gaze upon the child. "That is not a gift.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“They were never told exactly what became of the hero after the quest was completed or after the prince had been crowned king. But the battle had been won. They could not prolong fate any longer. It was time to find out what exactly hid entailed in those famous words: Happily. Ever. After.”
― Talis Jones

“Sarai bumped her knee against Adrianna's getting her attention. "What did you dream of being when you grew up?"

Her question surprised Adrianna. "Dead and stranded on a mythical island.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“I'm just a lost ghost caught in a riptide.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“Each clash of swords and cymbals. Each strike of the shields and drums. Each pluck of the hearts and the violins. Each collision of flesh burst with bloody melody. The battle crescendoed mirthlessly raising all the little tingling hairs on the body in its cry.

Then Aztlan began to shudder and wane...”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“I have many names. The name my parents gave me. The name my equals gave me. The name my masters gave me. The name I gave myself. The name scorched into the wind when my body was ripped from my soul.
But that’s not today.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“NO.”
BANG. BANG. BANG.
Drop. Drop. Howl.

I crouch there. Eyes wide. Breath stopped. Brain stuck. Feeling gone. Ears empty.

Slowly. Slowly. Slowly my brain takes my hand gently and explains what my eyes saw, what my ears heard, what my mind doesn’t want to know but must know all the same.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“I smile. "I've had many names, but you may call me Fury.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“Soaked and utterly drained I drag myself out of the river and scoop up my clothes but Connors stops me before I can slip on my jeans.

"Did you not hear me, child? I said the feeling of wet jeans was designed by the devil."

I stare at him waiting for a laugh but his face is so hilariously serious that I drop the pants and hold up my hands in surrender.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“Smiling I scramble onto my feet and pile on clothes. After the dip in the Mississippi the fabric clings in a tight embrace. I savor it.

"You think dry clothes feel nice," he calls, "but to make up for the wet jeans and damp socks, God gave us fresh toasty dry underpants. You can't put those on after a long day in the snow or rain and not believe in Heaven.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“It's the perfect adventure.
It's naive. It's insane. It's a death sentence.
But I gotta do it.
I'm gonna do it.
I'm a junkie with one eye on the edge and the other on the freedom fall after it.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“Did I tell you how I loved you the moment I first saw you in Tennessee?" he murmurs. His voice has a wistful quality like he's picturing the moment right now.

I turn to him surprised. "Really? The moment you saw me? When I was a smelly six-year old girl who hadn't bathed in a week, was covered in other kids' sweat, had snot on my sleeves and tear stains on my face and dirt matted in my hair? That moment? That had you struck by love at first sight?"

"Yep," he grins.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“I believe there is good in everyone. Perhaps we are born with darkness or perhaps it is but a deal we make, but that does not mean that we must be consumed by it.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow

“Even monsters don't always wish to be alone.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow

“Why can't I get it right, Titus?"

"Because you are too arrogant to understand what you did wrong," he muttered sorrowfully.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow

“Your assurances gather in my quiver as I shoot them into your heart. I warn you, another empty promise from you and the next arrow I release will be a very real one.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow

“I'd thought our bond stronger. In the end it was not of diamond, but pretty glass.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow

“She needed him to feel alone. She needed him to feel the darkness like she did.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow

“Just for a moment they were able to forget and in forgetting they remembered what war had threatened to erase.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow

“I will destroy you, Cassandra," he growled sweetly with poison-laced sugar.

"I look forward to watching you try.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow

“I learned rather quickly not to be shocked in this place. Just absorb the information, process it, then act accordingly. There is no room for shock.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow