Spellbreaker Quotes

“Sometimes I wonder if it’s better to be informed or ignorant. Or, rather, informed and depressed, or ignorant and happy.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“Modern fashion did not take into account a woman’s need to be stealthy amidst brambles.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“Ah, but that is not the way of the world. Journalists do not pay their rent reporting on how well things are going,”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“Thought moved so much faster than speech. A person could think a hundred things in the time it took for him to utter a single word.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“Now you are being more yourself.”
She folded her arms. “Am I?”
“Yes. You’re being difficult.” He said it with a sliver of humor.
Her arms dropped back to her sides as quickly as she had lifted them. “I’m sorry. I don’t mean to be.”
“And now you’re apologizing, which truly alarms me.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“If pity would have swayed the physical assembly, Bacchus might have shared his story with them. But men determined to be uncaring were never persuaded otherwise.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“Could you please not be tender while I tell you what a terrible person I am?”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“Stop thinking like a fictional character.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“Her spirit felt too big for her body, blooming like a wild rose.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“Bacchus let his impatience drain down his arms and into his hands, where he crushed it with tight fists.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“He and Elsie had courted for months. Talked about marriage. Family. A future. And then he’d left as abruptly as her parents had. Somehow, he’d seen that bit of her that was detestable, and he ran from it. Ran right into the arms of another woman, who now lived the life Elsie had once dared to imagine for herself. The conclusion was inevitable. She was unlovable.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“Journalists do not pay their rent reporting on how well things are going, unless it is in regards to the queen.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“A waistcoat embroidered with gold thread.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“It was a face as pale as the whites of Bacchus’s eyes, framed by hair even lighter. A hooked nose, a regal bearing despite his years.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“spellbreakers were born with the ability to dis-spell magic, and it didn’t cost them a farthing.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“seen. They were the dandies of the magic world.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“Different spells manifested themselves to her in different ways. She could feel rational runes, hear spiritual ones, and smell the temporal. Physical spells, however, liked to be”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“potential they possessed. There was a reason people specialized.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“matter how much magical”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“For when a person learned magic in all four alignments, they would be very weak in each of them, no”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“But when the law wasn’t fit, was it really a bad thing to break it?”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“A spellbreaker, born with one kind of magic instead of taught a hundred.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“Once again, Bacchus moved easily with the change in tide. If he felt awkward, he didn't show it. He slipped off his coat and draped it on the nearest chair. Then unbuttoned his waistcoat. laid it atop the chair as well.

Elsie wanted to look away, but she couldn't bring herself to. Because I'm a professional, she reminded herself. Or at least, she was pretending to be.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“And so Elsie, after checking the street for onlookers, reached forwards and splayed her hand against his chest, just over his diaphragm.

Well, that's...firm, she thought, ignoring the warmth creeping up her neck.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“Sometimes I wonder if it’s better to be informed or ignorant. Or, rather, informed and depressed, or ignorant and happy”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“Now you are being more yourself.”
She folded her arms. “Am I?”
“Yes. You’re being difficult.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“Stupid spellmaker and his stupid rich friends.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“ambulation”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“And often rainy,” he pointed out, “but it’s a different rain than here. It’s warmer and has more purpose.” Miss Ida chuckled. “Do you mean to say English rain has no purpose?” Bacchus shrugged. “Is there a purpose to watering stone?”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker

“It made her feel like a criminal. Which she wasn’t. At least, not at the heart of the matter. What God-fearing person, for example, would call Robin Hood a criminal? It really was a matter of perspective.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Spellbreaker