“I could stand in the middle of Front Street shrieking like a banshee and nobody would notice me. You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same. So stand behind me and think quiet thoughts.”
― C.M. Hayden, quote from The Reach Between Worlds
“It’s amazing what desperation can do to a person. It can seep into the heart. Turn us into the very monsters we fight." -Vexis”
― C.M. Hayden, quote from The Reach Between Worlds
“You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same.”
― C.M. Hayden, quote from The Reach Between Worlds
“Taro knelt and tightened the leather laces of his prosthetic leg. Buckles and straps kept the wood attached to his ankle.”
― C.M. Hayden, quote from The Reach Between Worlds
“The floors were polished mahogany, clear as glass,”
― C.M. Hayden, quote from The Reach Between Worlds
“Vexis stopped crying. She now looked more annoyed than anything. She feigned like she was trying to remember something. “So, eh, was he the fat one or the crippled one? Or the fat, crippled one? Y’know, it was just so much fun watching them hobble towards their body parts, I didn’t think to ask for names.”
― C.M. Hayden, quote from The Reach Between Worlds
“Bad men with smiles are the most dangerous kind.”
― C.M. Hayden, quote from The Reach Between Worlds
“Don’t sweat it, getting shot out of the sky is the thing least likely to kill you today.”
― C.M. Hayden, quote from The Reach Between Worlds
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“Ooof! Amy collided at high speed with someone entering the anteroom from the other direction. Her head was still spinning as a pair of capable hands righted her, and a warm chuckle sounded somewhere above her ear. "What an original way to make your presence felt!"
"My lord!" Amy hastily stepped back, this time banging into a bust of Brutus that wobbled ominously on its marble pedestal. Amy grabbed at Brutus before he could take a suicidal leap off his stand. "I didn’t…that is…"
"Had you known it was me you would have taken care to run into poor Brutus instead?" Lord Richard supplied with a smile of such conspiratorial goodwill that Amy nearly reeled back into poor Brutus once more.
"Something like that," admitted Amy weakly. Clearly, she was still slightly dazed from her two collisions.”
― Lauren Willig, quote from The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
“One of the things Lissianna had learned through the centuries was that there was nothing more dangerous than a zealot.”
― Lynsay Sands, quote from A Quick Bite
“Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself--over and over--not to do it.”
― Barry Lyga, quote from I Hunt Killers
“Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Fifth Mountain
“Professional wrestling is simply the most modern interpretation of an ancient tradition of stylized verbal battles between enemies. From the time that Homer recorded the Iliad, the emergence of what Scottish scholars call ‘flyting’—” “That would be a verbal battle preceding a physical one, but considered equally as important to the overall outcome,” Carwyn interjected. “Exactly. Throughout world myth, warriors have engaged in a verbal struggle that is as symbolically important as the battle itself. You can see examples in early Anglo-Saxon literature—” “You’ve read Beowulf, haven’t you, English major?” Giovanni glanced at the priest, but continued in his most academic voice. “Beowulf is only one example, of course. The concept is also prevalent in various Nordic, Celtic, and Germanic epic traditions. Even Japanese and Arabic literature are rife with examples.” “Exactly.” Carwyn nodded along. “See, modern professional wrestling is following in a grand epic tradition. Doesn’t matter if it’s staged, and it doesn’t matter who wins, really—” “Well, I don’t know about—” “What matters,” Carwyn shot his friend a look before he continued, “is that the warriors impress the audience as”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Hidden Fire
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