Lord of Embers Quotes

“Okay. I need to be less afraid of death.” I closed my eyes. “But there’s the fear of pain—” “Why fear something that is over so quickly?” “And then there’s the fear of what comes after. Do I end up here? Do I just stop existing?” “Why fear nonexistence?” he asked. “Do you feel afraid when you think of the past, before you existed?” “No.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lord of Embers

“How is it you can talk so much and clarify so little? It’s like the world’s shittiest superpower.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lord of Embers

“He quirked an eyebrow, looking irritated. “Has anyone ever told you that you’re a buzzkill? Killing Puritans is my idea of a good time. Stop ruining it. They will come back, yes. But I can make them feel terror and indescribable pain. Please don’t ruin my good time with all the downsides you keep pointing out.” He sighed. “But you should run. It doesn’t have anything to do with you, and I don’t need your help. We’re all on our own here, love. Go on.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lord of Embers

“accent. I had a sex dream about Orion two days ago, but then he turned into a spider, and it was still kind of hot?”
― C.N. Crawford, Lord of Embers

“Okay. I need to be less afraid of death. But there's the fear of pain-"
"Why fear something that is over so quickly?"
"And then there's the fear of what comes after. Do I end up here? Do I just stop existing?"
"Why fear nonexistence? Do you feel afraid when you think of the past, before you existed?”
― C.N. Crawford, Lord of Embers

“I grimaced. Poke his cock in your pole hole?”
― C.N. Crawford, Lord of Embers

“You can’t just cut random people’s heads off.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lord of Embers

“Please tell me he’s not also a relation.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lord of Embers

“When was the last time a queen ruled here instead of a king? And look at what angry men do when they have power. We saw it in the underworld. Men run that city. Women are hanged, put in stocks, and whipped, all because men can’t bear the thought of women having the tiniest bit of control.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lord of Embers

“In a man’s world like this, you could get in trouble for being old and ugly and past your prime. Or you could get in trouble for being young and tempting. Women like that made a man sin. And that, of course, was your fault, too.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lord of Embers

“Because anxiety is spending all your time imagining terrible situations that might occur,”
― C.N. Crawford, Lord of Embers

“When someone was delusional or psychotic, you couldn’t argue with them outright. They’d just think you didn’t understand them. You had to work within the boundaries of their belief system.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lord of Embers

“I didn’t have a blanket because you couldn’t exactly ask someone for a comfy blanket after you’d told them you hated them and wanted them dead.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lord of Embers