Eye of the Sh*t Storm Quotes

“He’s slowly shaking his head. I can’t read the look on his face; it’s as if awe and disbelief had a baby, and that little baby expression was then adopted by exasperation and raised to be pissed at just about everything.”
― Jackson Ford, Eye of the Sh*t Storm

“It’s a sad fact of life, Cage, that we’re not very good at this sort of thing in our country. Politicians, useless NHS managers, chief execs who swindle their shareholders and rob the pension pot – they all get very generous golden goodbyes, but those who risk their lives, or fight for their country, or spend their lives working in the shadows, or give up the chance of a normal life, those who actually do serve, selflessly and with dedication – well, they don’t.”
― Jodi Taylor, Long Shadows

“And the thing about revenge is that although it might be sweet, it’s always too late. The worst has already happened. Revenge is . . . yes . . . now I had it. Revenge is punishment.”
― Jodi Taylor, Long Shadows

“closed my eyes and dreamed of the red sun setting behind the white mountains and the cold, lonely sighing of the wind.”
― Jodi Taylor, Long Shadows

“She flooded my mind with thoughts of Borin, broken and dead in the dust, and it only made me stronger because I am Felda and I bear the grief of centuries as my burden and it makes me strong. I would break her for this. Her body jerked as I took control. I raised her hands to her face. I made her hook her own thumbs into the corners of her mouth and pull. I watched the blood flow, warm and wet. I made her drive her fingers into her eye sockets. She began to wail. And then I made her split her own face apart. I felt her skin rip. I heard her bones crack. I made her pull again. And again. As she had done to others, so I did to her. I watched as, with one giant movement, she pulled herself apart. Blood fountained up the walls. Things puddled out on to the floor. She had stopped making a noise, but I wasn’t ready to let her die yet. I stood over her. ‘I am Felda, Daughter of the Gods, and you, demon, are ended.’ A tiny piece of something in the wet, red accumulation of things that had once been a demon moved slightly. It might have been submission. It might have been a plea for mercy. It wasn’t important. I put my foot on it and ground it into nothing. It pleases men to believe their gods are good and kind and merciful. We are not. The other demon was easy. It tried to run but the very ties that bound it to Elizabeth prevented its escape. It begged for my mercy. I thought of the burden Elizabeth carried on my behalf. Every day. I looked at the demon that had cast its long shadow over her life and imagined how much lighter her life would be without it and that pleased me. I think it thought my hesitation meant I was considering its request for mercy. It tried to plead for its continued existence. Quite unsuccessfully.”
― Jodi Taylor, Long Shadows

“Time does not heal. Time just adds to the burden.”
― Jodi Taylor, Long Shadows

“The United States isn’t a single thing. It’s towns and cities, people and ideas, scattered across thousands of miles. Trying to destroy it in any meaningful way is pointless”
― Jackson Ford, Eye of the Sh*t Storm

“Telling someone what they said was problematic was like throwing a tennis ball at a wall. You’d entertain yourself, for a while, but you were never busting through.”
― Jackson Ford, Eye of the Sh*t Storm

“His colour subsided a little. He didn’t look at me. ‘To sit in peace. To drink in the silent hills. Listen to the murmur of the river. Breathe in the clean air. A chance for the things I’ve seen or done to be picked up and rolled away and buried deep.”
― Jodi Taylor, Long Shadows

“you’re as bonkers as a sock full of frogs”
― Jodi Taylor, Long Shadows