Kingdom Come Quotes

“Don’t get cocky”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“That veered into places my Midwestern heart found dangerously close to a compliment.”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“Faced with that kind of barbarism”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“I offered a weak smile. “Well”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“So. You’re Van Tudor,” she said. “My upper half”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“Self-flagellation is a specialty for me”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“I’ll put it this way—if the Earth blew up tomorrow and the only thing that survived was bacon”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“The Master smiled again. “Humility looks good on you”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“The best Peacemaker is the one that makes mistakes”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“For this mission”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“But Markov was everything I hated in a criminal—narcissistic”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“Induction is the stuff you do to join the military in the first place—the paperwork”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“I turned to Torina and Icky. “Hungry?” They exchanged a glance”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“I’ve been hanging around in Iowa too long, I guess. I’m this close to saying ope every time we pass by another ship.”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“I wasn’t sure how good it really was, because to me, vodka just tasted like nail polish and despair.”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“The instrument, which had a name that sounded like someone trying to dislodge a chicken bone from their throat, apparently filled the same role in space as bagpipes did on Earth—a sound everyone hated to love and loved to hate. It didn’t manage quite the edge bagpipes did, though, more like a hurdy-gurdy crossed with a zither. It was the kind of instrument that Ren-Faire people would adopt and tote from festival to festival with an air of inscrutable elitism.”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“Hey, when you’re a nail, everything looks like a hammer.”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“Uh—outbreak? As in a disease?” “No, it’s an outbreak of happiness and good cheer.” She sniffed. “Of course it’s a disease outbreak.”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“Well, that worked,” I said. “It did, and all you had to do was make a rookie Peacemaker feel like a complete piece of shit,” Perry replied. “I’ll buy Dugrop’che a drink.”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“The best Peacemaker is the one that makes mistakes, then goes out and fixes them.”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“But leopards really don’t change their spots, they just cover them up for a while.”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“Charm was like any other weapon. If you didn’t have a defense against it, you could wind up dead.”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“he”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“Getting lost in my own head was bad for”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“something I was going to have to overcome. If I let the Sorcerers start living rent free inside my head, making me hesitate, they’d already won a sort of victory, hadn’t they?”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“10 mm sockets vanish into thin air if you turn your eyes away from them for a second.”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“While I’m at it, why don’t I put on a wet copper helmet and go stand out on a hilltop during a lightning storm?”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“better to be judged by twelve than carried by six, as the old adage goes.”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“When talking about the cat, the mouse only whispers, yes?”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come

“As they sow, so shall they reap,”
― J.N. Chaney, Kingdom Come