The Last Sun Quotes

“My name is Rune Saint John. I am, before anything else, a survivor:”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“What is it we need to talk about, Lord Sun?”
“Matthias, this isn’t an eighties sitcom. I can’t casually accept an orphan into my house for comic relief.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“Don’t you do it, Rune,” Brand said without having to ask what I was thinking. “Don’t you fucking dare.”
“I’m just going to wait. Over there.”
“I’m fucking serious. Get the fuck out of there.”
“Right over there.” I pointed innocently.
“I will shoot you in the ass, the goddamn ass! I will shoot you in the ass, and you’ll be shitting through an inner tube for weeks!”
“I’ll be right back,” I said.
“In! The! Ass!”
I headed for the secret room.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“Brand’s my partner,” I said. “Not just a Companion. He comes with me.”
“Plus,” Brand said, “I hear all the cool bodyguards love to shut their clients in a strange room with a strange man. Extra points when zombies are involved.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“My lord, just to be clear,” one of the uniformed men said, “the gargoyle entered the premises from over here.”
I said, “Entered the premises? It pulled itself off the wall. Right there. In the spot with the monster shaped cut-out.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“I think people make themselves beautiful. I think everything on our outside is a line sketch, and whatever’s on the inside blows those lines into three dimensions.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“I did some research on Little Lord Asshat,” he said. It lacked any real heat, though. I’d overheard him earlier giving money to Queenie to buy Matthias “a razor, a toothbrush, and a fucking clue.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“Didn’t you know what his father was like—what kind of ability Rune has inherited? Those aren’t just shoes to fill, it’s the whole fucking shoe factory. Don’t you ever doubt whether he can do what he says.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“Brand grabbed the sides of my face. He stared in my eyes and said, firmly, “Rune of Sun House, I believe that you are meant for great things. I truly, truly do. Your story has barely begun. It is my honor to be along for what has been, and is, and will be one hell of a ride. So don’t leave me on the bench again. That’s all I wanted to say.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“She paused. “I would also have you understand this: if you discover someone did hurt my son, you are to tell me. While I am sparing in my protection, I am very generous in my reckoning. Such is the nature of Justice.”
Behind her, her shadow twisted into something with multiple legs that thinned into sharp points.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“The human world never figured out the phenomenal expense it took to create New Atlantis, or the unlikelihood that it would ever be possible again. To them, it looked as if we pulled our Gotham out of a cereal box. They saw their abandoned buildings turn into craters overnight, and assumed that that was the sort of thing we would always be capable of doing.
Not a bad rep to have.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“Brand said, “Every year there’s at least one stupid American college that tries to make New Atlantis a spring break destination. The newspapers have a field day when they get eaten.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“The thing you must never forget about Atlantean culture is that we don’t coddle our victims. Victims are quarantined and cast out, their defeat viewed as a genetic defect.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“I have the healing kit,” he called. “I heard you were attacked. I want to help.” “Then kick yourself in the ass really fucking hard,” Brand said. “I told you to stay put.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“Oh, I get it. You think this is one of them big, fancy rescues. Boy are you about to be embarrassed.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“There are moments in your life that are so impossibly large that it’s difficult to even comprehend them. They make your very bones vibrate. Standing there, it was like my future spiraled outward. Waves of possibility crashed on each other, bound by the insane certainty that everything could start. That everything could finally start.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“I whispered, “Burn.” The draug’s face began to smoke. Patches of skin peeled away from jawbone and incisors. Its hair clumped and curled into tight, foul nubs. It died into a blur of smoldering darkness. Everyone went quiet. As the light dimmed—my light, the light that was me—it took conscious effort not to sag. “Just curious,” I said in a shaky voice. “Were my eyeballs burning?” “Yes, they were burning,” Addam whispered in awe. “You were burning.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“I took offense to his dismissive response. Further discussion ensued. Eventually it appeared that the most diplomatic solution was to stick his fucking head in toilet water.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“He said, “Look six ways before crossing the fucking street.”
“I will.”
“Don’t forget down. You always forget to look down.”
“I will,” I said. He was always uneasy when I left the house without him. If I ever got hurt when he wasn’t around, I wouldn’t even be allowed to the bathroom without an escort for the next six months.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“We both swore as something lumbered into view. It was huge. And shaggy. It had orange-brown fur and forklift-shaped tusks. It looked like it had chewed through the barbed wire around Jim Henson’s workshop and fled into the wild.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“While it’s impossible Michale’s spent his life masterminding the image that he’s dumb as tar, I’m betting that’s just an insult to tar.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“You saved me,” Matthias said to me from behind Brand. I couldn’t quite identify the expression that lit up his face, but it wasn’t nearly as comfortable as plain gratitude. “You saved my life.”
“If we get you killed your first week, people will make fun of us,” I said.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“Once upon a time, the Heart Throne had been the archetype of sex and love and shiny, happy fluids. They’d been important to Atlantis. We’re a society, after all, that embraces the idea of group marriage, that finds pure heterosexuality as abnormal as pure homosexuality. We flaunt our appeal as a matter of breeding and survival.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“Once upon a time, the Heart Throne had been the archetype of sex and love and shiny, happy fluids.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“I will shoot you in the ass, the goddamn ass! I will shoot you in the ass, and you’ll be shitting through an inner tube for weeks!”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“They were copies of tourist info on Brazil, along with local portal schedules.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“Lady Justice, I'm embarrassed to have to remind you that with the death of my father, I became the voice and the will of the Sun Throne. I would ask that you afford me the semblance of respect, if you cannot manage the real thing...

Forgive me brother,... I overstep.

One day, I'd have the power of my father. It was in my blood. It was my legacy. But that day wasn't today, or next year, or probably even next century. There were many, many boxes of mac and cheese between me and a seat on the Arcanum. For her to call me brother was, as far as concessions went, one hell of an apology.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“When something went so wrong that I needed to become involved, scions were usually in over their head. Most of them had little ability to handle a true crisis.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“fDon't pay attention. Don't remember anything we say. Don't talk to anyone about what you don't remember.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“Her eyes went wide, an oil spill of mascara”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun