With Silent Screams Quotes

“It’s not about power; it’s about the willingness to do something that will stop your enemy cold. The willingness to win at any cost.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“you need only remember that you, and you alone, are the master of your own destiny.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“You’re like a nuclear missile, you’re dropped somewhere and cause devastation all around. You’ve always been that way. And I figured you’d come here and just fucking destroy everything that stood against me, like you do all the time. I wanted to tell you, I really did, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t risk you saying no, to the whole plan going out the window.” I got off Galahad, who adjusted his suit, but didn’t bother getting back to his feet. “Do you even know what Simon was here for?” “No, although we will. A few years in a dungeon will loosen his tongue a little.” “I never thought you’d be on the receiving end of my anger,” I said softly. “I always thought you’d be honest with me. That you knew how I felt after leaving Merlin, leaving behind the lies and manipulations. But I was wrong. You’re just shittier at it than he was.” “I have more important things to do than lament whatever has broken in our friendship,” he said, anger leaking from every syllable. “I think you should leave this city and this state.” “You’re having me kicked out?” Galahad shook his head. “I’ll be putting Bill Moon in charge of the investigation into what happened here. We’ll make things more palatable for the humans living here, and then we’ll be taking Simon back to Shadow Falls.” “And Rean?” “He has refused my aid and vanished with his remaining colony into the woods. Nine out of twenty-two died today, I doubt he wishes to involve himself with the affairs of anyone other than his colony.” “You lost two allies in space of a day and damaged your reputation as a ruler who takes care of his own. Congrats. You must be very proud.” “I think we’re done here,” he said and got back to his feet once more. I took a step toward him and I noticed something in his expression. Fear. But not fear of me, Galahad would never have been scared of me, but maybe the fear of what had been lost between us, and my anger evaporated, replaced with sadness. “Galahad, you should know something,” I said, gaining his attention as he walked off toward the house. He stopped at the open door and glanced back at me. “What is it?” “I’m not a nuclear bomb, I’m a scalpel. I cut away the tumors and diseased flesh that threatens to consume everything. So, you need to be very careful that during your reign, you don’t become something that requires my utmost attention.” And with that, I turned and walked away.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“Well, Sky is a regular customer of ours, and we were going to do a discount rate for her, but I have a better idea. The payment is you.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“I’m so goddamn manly, you better make sure you don’t get pregnant just by being in my proximity.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“You don’t want to piss him off,” Bill”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“So, I sat and listened and tried very hard not to tell everyone to fuck off and set them on fire.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“Galahad motioned for me to rise. “Thank you,” he said and hugged me. “This is a manly hug, right?” he asked after a few seconds. “It was until you started whispering in my ear,” I pointed out and he released the hug, which made us both laugh.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“but if that ever stops, I’m just going to remove your head from your shoulders and see how good you are at healing yourself. You understand step two?” “Yes. What’s step three?” “Oh, yes, that’s an easy one. Tell the DJ to stop playing this god-awful shit and put something fun on. Maybe a bit of Kenny Loggins, you can’t go wrong with Footloose. Everyone likes Kevin Bacon.” Karl’s eyes widened in shock. “Are you insane?” “Hey, Kenny isn’t that bad. Yeah it’s a bit cheesy, but it’s a good fun song.” I stared at Karl for a heartbeat. “Oh, you meant in general. No, I just really fucking hate dance music.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“The bouncer swallowed hard. “So, you have two choices, you could go get Mister Steiner and tell him that there is someone waiting for him. That is a bad plan, you would be interrupting his night and I doubt he would enjoy that. Or, the second choice is you accept my hundred dollars and you open the fucking door. Because if my date and I have to wait out in this shitty line for another second, I’m going to cut your fucking balls off, have them bronzed, and give them to Karl as a gift.” I stepped back from the bouncer, the hundred note still in my hand. He took the note, opened the door and wished us a good evening. “Right choice,” I told him and stepped inside the building.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“Do you feel all manly?” she asked. “I’m so goddamn manly, you better make sure you don’t get pregnant just by being in my proximity.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“Remind me again why you don’t have a boyfriend?” “I never said I didn’t have a boyfriend,” she said with a coy smile. “Then allow me to tell you that he is one lucky bastard and I hope you remind him of that on a regular basis.” “I remember telling you that your flattery and charm will get you nowhere.” “At one point, you also told me you were going to shoot me.” “The night is young, Mister Garrett, the night is young.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“When I was eighteen, clubbing literally meant hitting someone with a very large club.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“Excellent, just don’t expect me to do any actual dancing while we’re there. Clubbing isn’t something I’m good at. I know, I’ve been inside nightclubs before.” “Is it the loud music? Does it hurt your sensitive hearing?” “You’re a very witty woman. When I was eighteen, clubbing literally meant hitting someone with a very large club.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“Because on the off chance that Galahad keeps you in a human jail, you’re gonna have to get really good at it. A whole life of sweaty man love and sorcerer’s bands. Never to use your alchemy. That would be a very long life for you, I think.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“There are runes drawn all over these bars, you could rub them off, but doing so would make it go boom if you do it in the wrong order. That will turn you into a paste.” “You too.” “Nope, the focus of the blast is directed toward you. Me, I’ll just get a bit of a jolt and try to avoid flying parts of psychopath.” Simon’s eyes narrowed. “You’re a smug little prick, aren’t you?” “Well I’m not in jail. So, yes, yes I am.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“While it’s true that vampires tend to pick the attractive humans to turn, most of them also pick people who have a modicum of intellect or interesting things to say; no one wants to be stuck with a pretty idiot for all eternity.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“I glanced up at the wall, which contained another message. Like before, it was written in blood. House of Silent Screams. I immediately knew who had written the message and why I was involved. And a shiver went down my spine.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“None of you men bow to me today,” Galahad said. “Every single man here is defending his home and his life. We are not king and subject. We are one.” He pulled the nearest man upright and placed a bloody hand against the soldier’s heart. “We beat as one. We bleed as one, and we sure as hell fight as one.” A tear fell down the man’s face. “No one here bows to me. And any man or woman in this room who survives this will never have to bow to me again,”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“Caitlin and I remained a few yards back from him when he spoke to his subjects, but occasionally he would point to me or her and say something. After the fifth person he’d done this to, I caught up to him. “Why do you keep pointing at me?” I asked. Galahad smiled. “Just telling the people that you’re here to help, a few of them recognize you. News of your arrival has spread pretty quickly and, without blowing my own horn, people like me in one piece.” “You’re telling them we’re friends again, aren’t you?” “Yes, although I’m making it sound a little less like we’re both five-year-old girls.” I laughed and coughed and couldn’t catch my breath for a few seconds, while Galahad walked on cheerfully. The bastard.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“your parents do not define who you are. If at any point, you think that maybe because she’s turned out a certain way, that you might too, you need only remember that you, and you alone, are the master of your own destiny. That takes people far too long to realize, and even longer to do something about.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“We can neither live in the past, nor in the opportunities lost to us.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“Going out to a place where crowds of drunken people congregate would not make it onto any list of things I like to do. When you get so many people in the same place with lowered inhibitions and increased levels of self-importance, you tend you get trouble.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“She walked over to a car that was covered with a drape, pulling it away to reveal a dark-red Mustang Boss 429. “Holy crap, I haven’t seen one of those in years,” I said with more than a little bit of excitement. “I think it’ll make enough of an entrance to turn heads. Might even help get us in.” She grabbed a pair of keys from a well-organized key rack and threw them over to me. A few seconds later the car’s engine was roaring with joy as a smile broke my face. Caitlin took a garage door opener from her tiny purse and clicked it open as she got into the car next to me. “Do you feel all manly?” she asked. “I’m so goddamn manly, you better make sure you don’t get pregnant just by being in my proximity.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams

“I’m not psychotic or evil or anything so damn melodramatic, I just don’t have the luxury of second-guessing myself. If someone is coming to attack me or the people I care about, it’s them or me. Simple. If they want to push something to that degree and they threaten a life, then theirs is now forfeit. That’s not to say there aren’t people I’ve killed who stay with me, ones I regret ever having to take or being put into a situation where it’s them or me.”
― Steve McHugh, With Silent Screams