Forged in Blood II Quotes

“Utter foolery shouldn't be delegated”
― Lindsay Buroker, Forged in Blood II

“You’re inviting us to the rooftop populated with the people the gangs are after?” Deret hollered.

“Given that we’re planning ways to collapse your rooftop onto the makarovi milling in the factory, we thought you’d find it a more appealing perch.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Forged in Blood II

“She retrieved the scissors and waved them triumphantly. “It’s a testament to your lovemaking skills that your crooked bangs didn’t distract me earlier, but we’re going to have to fix that before going another round.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Forged in Blood II

“As you pointed out, I was recently in a non-respirating state. I remain grievously weakened.” “A non-respir… you are socially awkward. Now I see the real reason you’ve never talked much.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Forged in Blood II

“An equally shaggy tuft of hair dangled from his chin, the classification somewhere between beard, goatee, and flower gone to seed.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Forged in Blood II

“There are times like this when I wish I’d gone to the military academy and joined the army.” “Why?” “Because there’s a soldier axiom about not sharing a foxhole with anyone crazier than yourself. If I’d actually joined, I’d be able to quote it precisely. That would be apt right now.” “Ha ha.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Forged in Blood II

“Honesty and politics rarely ride in the same wagon,” Books said.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Forged in Blood II

“Besides, how would she have gotten him to fall in? Throw a carpet over it and stand on the other side? That only worked in the old fables and to animals with the brightness of inebriated sloths.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Forged in Blood II

“Yes, yes, now get your big butt off the ladder so I can get out, will you?” came the cousin’s voice from inside. Mahliki rolled her eyes. “My butt isn’t big. It’s contoured.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Forged in Blood II

“Utter foolery shouldn’t be delegated; one should take the risk and accept the consequences oneself.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Forged in Blood II

“Oh, and I wasn’t going to ask if she minded if I went to a brothel. I was going to ask if you thought she’d like to come along.” “She’d mind that even more. I’m sure Akstyr would be fine with a celebratory pie.” Though now that she knew of Curi’s questionable allegiance, Amaranthe wouldn’t be shopping for sweets there. “Pie. Just when I think you know men fairly well, you say something like that.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Forged in Blood II

“Sicarius found it odd that a people could deny the belief in deities, magic, and other mysticism, but had no trouble accepting that the human spirit was eternal and lived on in some everlasting incarnation. Perhaps the other things weren’t required for the sanity of the human mind, but the idea of mortality being final was too depressing a concept to accept for those who inevitably drew closer to such an end themselves. He”
― Lindsay Buroker, Forged in Blood II

“One of the more endearing qualities to human beings is their willingness to sacrifice themselves to make someone else’s life better,”
― Lindsay Buroker, Forged in Blood II

“the most profound lessons were taught by failure rather than success and that one often had to lose something to realize how much she’d appreciated it.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Forged in Blood II