“Silly dark elves. Earth is for Druids.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“Granuaile shook her head. "No, it's gross. You are such a guy sometimes."
Isn't he a guy all the time? (Oberon)
She's not saying I'm occasionally female. She's implying that I'm shallow.
Oh, I know. So why did she say only sometimes? (Oberon)”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“The royal hound's belly demands rubbing. Step lively, humans, neglect me not."
~Oberon”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“Hey Atticus, do me a quick favour before we go? its easy.
Sure. What is it?
Hold Granuailes staff for just a minute. You know, rest it on the ground so that its like a walking stick or something and the top of it is near your right cheek.
Granuaile and I traded weapons to humor him and I stood as instructed.
Thats perfect! Now say this like Sir Ian McKellen I am Atticus the White, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“Missing people in our lives are like wounds we reopen with thoughts.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“That is a noble idea, though I think it far to generous," Jupiter said. "Once a decade should be sufficient."
"I would rather be too generous than not in such cases."
"As you wish."
[One day, Atticus was amazed to discover that when Jupiter said, "As you wish," what he really meant was "I love you."]”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“And there were carved hearts in the trunks of trees with the initials of couples who felt there was no more romantic thing they could do to celebrate their love than scar the local plant life”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“but greatness is in the act of creation and not necessarily in the finished product. Creating is the yin to the yang of our consumption and the doorway to beauty that we all want to walk through. Creating is how I tell the world I love it.” I”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“Perhaps he'd been using Just for Gods hair cream.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“Side effects from doggie joy may include face lube and leg-humping" ~ Oberon”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“Pardon me, is this some kind of social experiment? You want me to get a hundred and forty-four Samoans and cram them into your cabin with a case of whiskey?”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“You ever notice the rampant child neglect going on in faery tales" ~ Oberon”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“The mad fucker just laughed that insane laugh and pulled his sword out of his ass. Zeus, now afflicted with acute pietism, gasped and asked him to do that again. Jupiter slapped him to to the ground, and yelled for him to get his priorities in order.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“Aside from cutting off her head, though, I didn't really mean to kill her."
Granuaile laughed. "You know I'm on your side, but to an objective listener, that sounds like a less than convincing argument.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“No one takes you seriously when you're naked.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“Gaia has left us wonder wherever we go, if we only open our eyes to it." ~ Atticus”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“The sun cannot shine as bright without a proper darkness to counter it.
The world had gone a bit gray.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“Cry hamhock and let slip the hogs of war!"
- Oberon”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“The mixed woods of Germany were the sort that deserved a good savoring—no, a savouring, with a British u in there for the sake of decadence, as colours are somehow more vibrant to me than mere colors.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“Our minds are all that defend us from the horror of the void. The majority of the time we simply think about something-anything-else, and that itself is an act of defiance against the vast nothing of the universe.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“The Álfar took out thirty dark elves? Oh. Well, they’re very welcome. I’ll send them some fine Irish whiskey as soon as possible, if you’ll be so kind as to deliver it to them. Because if someone saves you from a potentially life-threatening fight, you owe them booze. It’s a rule that transcends time and cultures.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“Now, I know I am not a craftsmen... but greatness is in the act of creation and not necessarily in the finished product. Creating is the yin to the yang of our consumption and the doorway to beauty that we all want to walk through. Creating is how I tell the world I love it." ~ Atticus”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“Oberon perked up, "Awesome! I've never seen a base model elf before! But they come with bonus dudes?”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“An Druides be, thanne answere me: whos love in Eire is moste fyn and fre?" Herne
"whether in bedde or in feeld do ye meet, Flidais awaiteth your limbes to greet." Atticus”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“if someone saves you from a potentially life-threatening fight, you owe them booze. It’s a rule that transcends time and cultures.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“not complaining. I’m lobbying. It’s this whole other word.>”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, / And if ever there was it led forward life … / All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
“Our minds are all that defend us from the horror of the void. The majority of the time we simply think about something—anything—else, and that itself is an act of defiance against the vast nothing of the universe. But minds break down and stop thinking sometimes. They feel instead: A looping, gnawing monster eats away confidence and goals and even a sense of duty until we are in a dry bleak place of ennui, unable to focus on the minutiae that used to keep us moving. Tongues taste chalk and ashes, and eyes see only gray washes occasionally penetrated by bright stabs of panic. Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it.”
― Kevin Hearne, quote from Hunted
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“Whatever. So how is all this brilliant knowledge supposed to help me control the explody thing?” “Explody thing?” Jenny said. I nodded. “It’s a technical term.”
― A.E. Kirk, quote from Drop Dead Demons
“Yeah? Well, you and your snooty, all-knowing witches have never been to the moon. My people have, because it was there and it was a good thing to do," Lily said in her best Boston accent. "So bite my scientist-loving ass.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Trial by Fire
“It was a gift. You were a gift. A gift that made my life worthwhile. A gift that made life fun. A gift that filled me with music. A gift that filled me with love. A gift that inspired me to live on the bright side.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Gus
“all the time complaining at me that she could have had a career dancing topless at the Orbital Grill and Rendezvous Parlor. Her and her perky breasts. Yasmin, I told her, all the girls have perky breasts in zero-g, you were nothing special, you’re lucky a good man took you away from all that.”
― Anne McCaffrey, quote from Acorna: The Unicorn Girl
“Little Robin had been brought by Lord Orthallen—although he had the feeling that his lord did not realize it. The boy was a part of his household, though Orthallen seemed to have long since forgotten the fact; and when the order came to pack up the household and move to the Border, Robin found himself in the tail of the baggage train, with no small bewilderment. He'd been at a loss in the encampment, wandering about until someone had seen him and realized that a small child had no place in a camp preparing for warfare. So he was sent packing; first off with Elspeth, then pressed into service by the Healers. They'd set him to fetching and carrying for Dirk, thinking that the child was far too young to be able to pick anything up from the casual talk around him, and that Dirk wouldn't think to interrogate a child as young as he.
They were wrong on both counts.
Robin was very much aware of what was going on—not surprising, since it concerned his adored Talia. He was worried sick, and longing for an adult to talk to. And Dirk was kind and gentle with him—and had he but known it, desperate enough for news to have questioned the rats in the walls if he thought it would get him anywhere.
Dirk knew all about Robin and his adoration of Talia. If anyone knew where she was being kept and what her condition was, that boy would.
Dirk bided his time. Eventually the Healers stopped overseeing his every waking moment. Finally there came a point when they began leaving him alone for hours at a time. He waited then, until Robin was sent in alone with his lunch—alone, unsupervised, and more than willing to talk—and put the question to him.
Dirk had no intention of frightening the boy, and his tone was gentle, "I need your help. The Healers won't answer my questions, and I need to know about Talia."
Robin had turned back with his hand still on the doorknob; at the mention of Talia's name, his expression was one of distress.
"I'll tell you what I know, sir," he replied, his voice quavering a little. "But she's hurt real bad and they won't let anybody but Healers see her."
"Where is she? Do you have any idea who's taking care of her?"
The boy not only knew where she was, but the names and seniority of every Healer caring for her—and the list nearly froze Dirk's heart. They'd even pulled old Farnherdt out of retirement—and he'd sworn that no case would ever be desperate enough for them to call on him.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Arrow's Fall
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