The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue Quotes

“You lost sight of what was important... and sometimes, to gain something you have to let something go.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Be careful what you wish for... your wish will visit you tenfold.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... a safe haven, a place where the oppressed, the different, the fearful could exist, untroubled... hence its name, ‘Narytusca, home of the Circus’.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... but it didn’t change the fact that the conscious mind remained the same for a Regen and you just couldn’t go through several lifetimes and retain the innocence of youth; some things you just could not unsee, unfeel or undo.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... you couldn’t find your way out of a cul-de-sac with a map, a compass and a guide...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... catching sight of the metal fused onto stripped bone, ligaments visible where the two meet as the advancing metal and flesh army stride easily across the granite steps.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“We have always been herbalists and healers, Trad...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Father... just for once can you live in the moment?”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Oh yes, that’s about as sensitive as blunt trauma.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“She flies at the cage. Bat-like, she clings to the bars...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Catching sight of the rotund Levaedet Ringmaster striding through the crowds, high above them on his disproportionately long legs, she allows herself a moment to imagine the smell of Candyfloss mingling with toffee apples and salted popcorn; the screams of laughter from the carousel and Ferris wheel...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“This is a high security men’s institution and they are complaining about me? Have you seen the guy who thinks he is Hannibal Lecter?”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... a living, breathing entity not dissimilar to the interior of a cathedral – one of wood, living wood. Where the cathedral had carved stone, here were trees, ivy, flowers, all working together to form the walls...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“You see, we black cats are the only thing between you and certain death.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... something was not right... almost as if something were hiding amongst the paint... squeezed in between the brush strokes... a kind of presence bringing it alive...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Each bringing a hoof down hard on the floor, Asttriane and Nell set in motion a series of chains...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... this little planet of ours has much to offer...’ ‘... or have you always known?”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“In my world it’s different; when you die, that’s it, kaboosh, fin, over, the end.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Finding that out was a blast, you know, waking up on the mortuary slab, about to be cut open after being declared dead.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Trad moves to get a better view of the water falling in a continuous, glistening cascade from the uppermost level of the atrium to the lagoon below.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“I’ll have you know there’s nothing wrong with knitting.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... do your lot wake up and think hmm, what can I do to ruin the planet today?”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Black cats protect. Black cats are the reason you can all sleep at night...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Still the myth stands, does it, hmmm? Black cats are bad luck, are they?”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Who’s Trevor?’ Grace suddenly shouts at the room. ‘And where the hell is he?”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Really?’ Ellery says, looking over Grace as if she were dirt on her shoe, which probably would be preferable to being at the end of Ellery’s stare.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; I love you no matter what your choices, my lovely.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Wait in there... You’ll like it in there... Run along, we’ve got grown up things to do...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Passing through is fine; hanging around not so much.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“If you stay for too long, the story will take you.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue