Not for the Faint of Heart Quotes

“That's all we can do. Fuck the fascists, and introspect.”
― Lex Croucher, Not for the Faint of Heart

“Nobody had ever pinned Clem to a tree before. New experiences were good for the soul.”
― Lex Croucher, Not for the Faint of Heart

“Well, it’s either you give me your knife and I can get this done right now, or I use my teeth, and I’ll have chewed the arrow out in about half an hour but we’ll all be *very* upset.”

“Give her… the knife,” Morgan rasped on an outward breath. Mariel relented and handed it over, the torch dipping as she did.

“Great. Hold that steady for me. Baxter- you’re doing an excellent job, no notes for you.”
― Lex Croucher, Not for the Faint of Heart

“overlapping man-chatter.”
― Lex Croucher, Not for the Faint of Heart

“You have to know that you might be the only person who ever truly sees everything you do, how hard you work, what you believe in—and just do it anyway.”
― Lex Croucher, Not for the Faint of Heart

“Things would happen to you, both great and very terrible. You might as well make the most of them, when you could.”
― Lex Croucher, Not for the Faint of Heart

“You can’t change how other people feel,” she said. Mariel was half turned away from her, her breathing unsteady, looking at nothing in particular. “So you can’t do any of this for them. You have to know that you might be the only person who ever truly sees everything you do, how hard you work, what you believe in—and just do it anyway.”
― Lex Croucher, Not for the Faint of Heart

“I mean it. This isn’t a joke. This is too important. Whatever your guardian has been getting up to back at Oak Vale-“

“Giving the village chickens names,” Clem said. “And inventing large-scale dramas between them. Bethel is divorcing Eric.”
― Lex Croucher, Not for the Faint of Heart

“Hard luck,” Clemence said to Josey, all sympathy. “Best fighter I’ve ever seen, and they have you on piss duty.”

Josey smirked. Mariel was less amused.

“Come on then,” said Clemence. “I’m not afraid of an audience. It won’t make me shy. If anything, I’ll piss harder, just to try to impress you…”
― Lex croucher, Not for the Faint of Heart

“Are you *holding my hand*?”

This was so ridiculous that Clem laughed; she abruptly stopped and dropped back into the hushed, half-whispered register they’d been using.

“Yes,” Clem said. “I’m holding your hand. I’m making my move. I understand that you have trouble expressing your feelings and that my violent kidnapped was just your way of telling me you *like*-like me.”
― Lex Croucher, Not for the Faint of Heart

“Big John, who had an enormous, alarming grin on his face the entire time like he was hungry for violence and he’d just stumbled upon a vigilante justice buffet,”
― Lex Croucher, Not for the Faint of Heart

“This, Clem supposed, was what happened when a group went from a fun, ballsy, anarchist autonomous collective to an organized militia, with an official leader instead of an honorary one. People got delusions of grandeur. They put their silly gold pins on and believed that they were better than everybody else.”
― Lex Croucher, Not for the Faint of Heart

“How's this? If I decide you're going to die, I'll just give you a pat on the head and leave you to it.”
― Lex Croucher, Not for the Faint of Heart