Audition for the Fox Quotes

“We are not a part of any story but our own. The story moves on without us and if we stayed to see how it ended, well...we'd leave our own stories behind.”
― Martin Cahill, Audition For The Fox

“There are indeed ways to bring justice to the evil and wicked that does not destroy one's soul in the process.”
― Martin Cahill, Audition for the Fox

“To rise above evil while bringing evil low would indeed be a challenge.”
― Martin Cahill, Audition for the Fox

“But when those above you punch down, crushing you, smaller and smaller, enough to make you think your life is the joke? No greater cruelty in the world exists, as far as this jester is concerned.”
― Martin Cahill, Audition for the Fox

“All creatures that thrived on pride held in their hearts a deep and terrible fear.”
― Martin Cahill, Audition for the Fox

“The future happens because we make it happen, because we choose for our best tomorrow to come.”
― Martin Cahill, Audition for the Fox

“There's a fine line between stubborn and stupid.”
― Martin Cahill, Audition for the Fox

“Those in power often only ever see their opponents as worthy when those opponents wield a power similar to the kind they hold themselves; they don't ever think to look for power in the forms they do not know.”
― Martin Cahill, Audition for the Fox

“Just remember. Life is a story. Stories are answers to questions you learn by living. What is the question you will try to answer with your life?”
― Martin Cahill, Audition for the Fox

“What is it about trickery that makes you so damned wise?"

A little smile broke free of the dark, canines gleaming silver in an arc of moonlight.

"We'll call this our first lesson, then, little kit. If you are to trick others, you must be honest with yourself about why you're doing it. Otherwise tricks fall apart, becoming ineffective and bumbling. Or worse, they become cruel for cruelty's sake. I refuse to let that happen. There are far too many of my siblings who endorse that already.”
― Martin Cahill, Audition for the Fox

“I still think we need tricksters to tweak the nose of tyrants. I still think we need loving, inclusive, intersectional communities that can hold space for all those who lack such a thing, and embrace them in that held space and into community. I still think there will always be a part of me that feels like Nesi: too young, too inexperienced, too anxious while also wildly passionate, eager to help, and desperate to fulfill a purpose. And I still think stories are some of the best tools we have in the world to save each other, through joy, shared experience, human connection, and the healing power of art.”
― Martin Cahill, Audition for the Fox

“There is much good we can do together and many more joys that exist tomorrow than do today.”
― Martin Cahill, Audition for the Fox

“You not only threw down the wicked, you did so by lifting up the brightness of those around you.”
― Martin Cahill, Audition for the Fox

“No, I don't feel ready at all. But I don't think I ever will. Maybe it's what I've been missing the whole time, because...yeah, there has been exactly no point in all this that I've felt ready. Where answers arrived, and clarity struck, and you put a crown on my head or something and said, 'Congratulations, you did it!' I guess I just...have reached a point where someone has to do something, and if I'm not that someone, nothing will happen and nothing will get better, or have the hope of getting better. So, no, I'm sure as hells not ready. Which is why I know it's time to start moving anyway.”
― Martin Cahill, Audition for the Fox