Into The Abyss Quotes

“Trump Tower?”  Tom asked incredulously.  Well, at least he got that one right, thought Antefalken, shuddering at the thought of its namesake Archdemon. ”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss

“The whole place was a rather chaotic jumble of science-fantasy and cyberpunk.  The sort of place where the ideas of a lot of really bad authors came together, or perhaps drunken game designers.”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss

“How did he get stuck in this farcical hero role?  If he were a character in a book he was reading, he’d damn the author to hell.  Hmm, well, given those circumstances, at least he could punch the author in the face because they’d both be in the same place. Tom almost laughed hysterically again. ”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss

“Be quiet, Tizzy. He is, of course, sort of right. You see we are all demons now, but we weren’t always. Everyone here once looked different. Most were human, but not all.” “Not all, definitely not all, and some definitely not now,” interrupted Tizzy.”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss

“There are no Time Warriors left alive as far as any one knows, but given the nature of their disciplines, they may only be on hiatus.”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss

“Comest now, demon, I command thee!” “OH, DO YOU?”  thundered a remarkably bass voice from behind the boulder. “Yes, shithead, I do!”  One had to be tough with these things or they’d walk all over you. A hoof stepped out from behind the boulder, and then the rest of the demon followed. “Oooh, shit.” Gastropé’s eyes grew wide as he took the creature in.  Biggest damned thing he’d ever seen.  “Did I say shithead?” was all he could say.  The demon just grinned wickedly.  Gastropé licked his lips.”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss

“The question,” Rupert stated, “is, do I rend you limb from limb, physically?  Or do I rend you cell by cell, magically?”  Rupert certainly couldn’t do the latter, and he really didn’t want to do the former; however, the demon had really made him mad.  He deserved to suffer a little fear.  If Rupert had been a human, he’d be dead by now, he was sure. “Limb by limb, if you please.”  The demon begged. “I’ll be forever regenerating with the cell-by-cell thing.  Please...”  The demon almost seemed to whine.  “Please lord, if I have to regenerate cell by cell, my master will really be angry with me.  He doesn’t like his people slacking off, taking up his time to regenerate from their own stupidity, as he’d say.  Just rend me limb from limb, I promise I won’t bother you anymore.  Please?”  Rupert just continued to glare.  He was taken by surprise. The little fellow acted as if it were standard procedure in this circumstance.  He was actually begging for one method over the other.  “Please? Limb by limb?”  the demon begged. Rupert shrugged.  He’d never rent anyone limb from limb before.  He wasn’t sure how it was supposed to be done, but he could use his imagination.  Rupert waded in.  It was all rather messy, he’d decided afterward.”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss

“Antefalken drew in a breath through his nose, preparing for a sigh.  Hmm, he thought.  He’d almost missed something. That was the annoying part about not breathing.  If you didn’t breathe regularly, you didn’t smell things. ”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss

“Chapter 1 He wasn’t positive, but Tom was pretty sure that this wasn’t what pot was supposed to feel like.”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss

“I hate being a spectator in my own home as unknown combatants wage war in my kitchen.” ”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss

“Nefarious nihilists!  For the moment, they seem out of our pursuance.  How I would love nothing more than for the jaws of justice to mercilessly masticate the miserably malicious malefactoring miscreantic malcontents!” Fiernon pounded his fist into the palm of his left hand. “The exhaustive exhibition of elegant eloquence in your exhortative elocution is extremely, nay, exquisitely exacting in the extreme, and excessively encouraging to me, thus ensuring of my express agreement; thus I must say, do not give up hope!” ”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss

“Schizophrenic demons were not a good thing to turn loose on unsuspecting people. ”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss

“He just didn’t know.  He really needed something like Demon-Ed.  After all, if you had to take a class to drive a car, shouldn’t you also have to take one to be a demon?  Being a demon was a lot more dangerous; to others at least.”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss

“Of course, all of this useless philosophizing wasn’t getting him anywhere.  One would think he was the villain, going for hours on end with a boring monologue of his innermost thoughts, rather than the heroic man of action.  Heroic Man of Action! Hah! ”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss

“Hurt. Pain. Agony. Suffering. Severe pain. Intense agony. God-awful hurt. Extreme suffering. Painfully agonizing suffering and hurt. This is not good, thought Tom in one of his semi-lucid moments between thoughts of assorted types of pain, agony, et cetera. ”
― J.L. Langland, Into The Abyss