“Your dreams are your spirit, your soul and without them your are dead. You must guard your dreams always. Always. Lest someone steal them away from you. I know what it is to have your dreams stolen. I know what it is to be dead. Guard your dreams. Always guard your dreams.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Back, devil! Return thee to Hell!"
The beast rolled its eyes. "I am not a devil, fool. Do you ever wonder why you seek the Devil with such vigor? I shall tell you. Because you cannot face your own wickedness. The truth is there is no Devil making you torture, rape, murder, and sodomize one another, or making you destroy the very land that feeds you. There is only you. So look at yourself, for you are the only devil in this room.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Your dreams are your spirit, your soul, and without them you are dead.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Shit spews from your lips as from the ass of a pig.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Burn? Smite? Punish? Why is your god so intolerant? So jealous? Why must there be only one god? Why is there not room for many?”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“The truth is there is no Devil making you torture, rape, murder, and sodomize one another, or making you destroy the very land that feeds you. There is only you.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Then let us go and be terrible.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“You can never be done with music. No more than you can be done with breathing. The day you quit is the day you die.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“A house built on lies has a weak foundation.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“How will I make a people who do not understand the power of belief believe? And without their belief Mother Earth will wither and Yuletide will fade...and so, too will I...like all the spirits and gods before me.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Krampus reached over and wiggled one of the nails protruding from Jesse's leg.
"Ow, fuck!" Jesse cried. "Watch it. Goddamn, what's wrong with you?"
"You still live."
"Yeah... I still live. Lucky me.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“I am fearful most men of this age are like you. They have forgotten what it is to huddle in a hut with the beasts and demons howling outside their door. They no longer have want of a great and terrible spirit to protect them. They have lost their fear of the wild and with it their need to believe. And I cannot blame them, for they now have the power to chase away the shadows with a mere flick of a switch. So I must ask myself, what role can I play in a world where men worship the moving-picture box, where they make and consume potions that eat away their own brains, where they ravage and pillage entire mountains, kill the very earth itself? “Mankind has lost its connection to the land, to the earth, to the beasts and spirits. They gather their food not from the forest and fields, but from plastic bins and ice boxes. Their lives are no longer tied to the cycles of the seasons and the harvest, no longer do they need the Yule Lord to chase away the winter darkness and usher in the light of spring. Man has only himself to fear now . . . he has become his own worst devil.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Just be careful what you say. Don't upset him."
"You mean the Grumpus guy?"
"It's Krampus.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Jesse couldn't picture a more desolate setting to meet his end. He watched the water drops gather and slide down the windshield, remembered how as a child he'd pretend they were eating each other, tried to pretend he was sitting in the back of his daddy's car now heading over to Grandma's for dinner.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Krampus's voice trailed off, he glanced at Jesse. Jesse's head lay on his shoulder, his eyes closed; there came no sign of breath.
"It appears I am talking to myself." Krampus crossed his arms atop his chest and grunted.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“For the world is a hard place and nothing comes without a price.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“You are free. The world is yours. got take it.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“How will I make a people who do not understand the power of belief believe?”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Man has only himself to fear now . . . he has become his own worst devil.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“wanted, a pretty lie, and they believed, because a pretty lie is easier to believe than an ugly truth.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Is there not room in your heart for both? They both spread peace, charity, and goodwill.” “Only Jesus can save your soul from eternal damnation.” A smug smile spread across the reverend’s face. “Can Santa Claus do that? Don’t think so.” Santa let out a sigh. “We all serve God in our way.” Then, almost to himself: “Sometimes whether we wish it or not.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Spain?” Jesse said and glanced about at the others, but they looked equally perplexed. “Spain?” “Yes, to Baldr’s castle. Where did you think he lived? The North Pole?”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Santa Claus ran his finger across the rough parchment, lightly tracing the inscription below. “Charity unto others brings its own reward,” he whispered.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Krampus found me, forced me into servitude—me, the son of Odin, a slave to a low-cast demon. I did not care, did not feel. Hollow of heart and soul, I came to believe this to be my fate, my penance, that I had been spared to bear torment not just for my own vanity and arrogance, but for that of all my forebears.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“She laughed and said not to confuse pride with nobleness.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
“Something’s just not right,” he said, shaking his head, “not by a long shot.”
― Brom, quote from Krampus: The Yule Lord
Brom
Born place: in Albany, Georgia, The United States
Born date March 3, 1965
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“You see! If you come in contact with great power, you must not be overwhelmed by it. The secret to controlling great power is the same secret that you must apply in your daily life when you are faced with great challenges. You must calm yourself and quiet your mind. Learn to filter the distractions and focus on the key elements that really matter.”
― Roy Huff, quote from The First Pillar
“Things I’d been sure of before, I questioned now.”
― Julie Kibler, quote from Calling Me Home
“Mine was the only white face in the crowded restaurant, but I was coming to terms with my whiteness. No one had tried to murder me yet. No one seemed to care.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Street Lawyer
“He laughs best who laughs at the end.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Big Four
“Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is explicit or before it sees its object, manifests itself as boredom or some other kind of suffering. And what did I think of myself in relation to the great occasions, the more sizable being of these books? Why, I saw them, first of all. So suppose I wasn't created to read a great declaration, or to boss a palatinate, or send off a message to Avignon, and so on, I could see, so there nevertheless was a share for me in all that had happened. How much of a share? Why, I knew there were things that would never, because they could never, come of my reading. But this knowledge was not so different from the remote but ever-present death that sits in the corner of the loving bedroom; though it doesn't budge from the corner, you wouldn't stop your loving. Then neither would I stop my reading. I sat and read. I had no eye, ear, or interest for anything else--that is, for usual, second-order, oatmeal, mere-phenomenal, snarled-shoelace-carfare-laundry-ticket plainness, unspecified dismalness, unknown captivities; the life of despair-harness or the life of organization-habits which is meant to supplant accidents with calm abiding. Well, now, who can really expect the daily facts to go, toil or prisons to go, oatmeal and laundry tickets and the rest, and insist that all moments be raised to the greatest importance, demand that everyone breathe the pointy, star-furnished air at its highest difficulty, abolish all brick, vaultlike rooms, all dreariness, and live like prophets or gods? Why, everybody knows this triumphant life can only be periodic. So there's a schism about it, some saying only this triumphant life is real and others that only the daily facts are. For me there was no debate, and I made speed into the former.”
― Saul Bellow, quote from The Adventures of Augie March
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