Rapture's Edge Quotes

“Dressed in a black pair of men's boxer shorts rolled over at the waist so they didn't sag down her legs and a white men's undershirt she must have found in one of the dresser drawers, with her choppy blue hair sticking up in every direction and her wild, glittering eyes, she looked like an insane, cross-dressing pixie.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Rapture's Edge

“Your life before mine. Your needs before mine. Your desires and hopes and dreams before mine. I pledge you my life, and upon my death I pledge the service of my everlasting soul. There shall be no others before you, now, until the end of all time. On my honor, I swear it.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Rapture's Edge

“Whether they realize it or not,” he murmured, gazing into her eyes, “women are always more powerful than men. The only reason males are bigger, physically stronger, is because we’re made to protect and serve the more valuable sex: females. Nature bestowed on them the ability to conceive and give birth. Only females grow life inside their bodies. Only females bring it forth. They’re made to create and nurture life. There’s nothing more powerful, more necessary, than that.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Rapture's Edge

“Nowadays, she operated on two simple principles: I’ll believe it when I see it and It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Rapture's Edge

“The only reason males are bigger, physically stronger, is because we’re made to protect and serve the more valuable sex: females.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Rapture's Edge

“Truth, like honor and courage and love, does not come in shades of gray. You either have it or you don’t—there is no in between. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to uncover it, and sometimes it is clear and simple as a sunrise. Also like honor and courage and love, sometimes the truth can be lost, and you have to find your way back to it, crawling over fields of broken glass and dead bodies, your knees and hands bloody and raw, until you get to it and it’s even sweeter than before because of what you suffered on the way.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Rapture's Edge

“Belief in Fate, like belief in God, requires a certain suspension of disbelief, the ability to accept without physical proof that there is something larger than yourself operating behind the scenes in the universe, there is a Plan that’s being followed and your own small life is a part of it.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Rapture's Edge

“So love—aside from being pointless—was agony. Love was a soul-eating demon. Love was the most terrible feeling in the world.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Rapture's Edge