Humor Quotes
55"Today I’d rather be a Barca. Presuming you don’t have a problem with that and I don’t have to become proportionally diminutive."
- Victra au Julii
Morning Star, ch. 55: The Ignoble House Barca, p. 435
"Do not be jealous, tiny man, that I can lift what you cannot lift."
- Volga Fjorgan
Iron Gold, ch. 6: Ephraim, p. 46
"Hell hath no fury like a woman packing a railgun."
- Ephraim ti Horn
Iron Gold, ch. 6: Ephraim, p. 48
"That doesn’t look anything like me. You look like a bloody saint plowed an angel and out you popped. I look like a deranged fucking mutant that eats babies."
- Sevro au Barca
Iron Gold, ch. 10: Darrow, p. 88
"How do you prepare for a kick in the balls? You don’t. You suck it up."
- Darrow O'Lykos
Iron Gold, ch. 52: Darrow, p. 490
"Unlike mortal men, Ragnar didn’t sleep. He merely waited."
- Sevro au Barca
Iron Gold, ch. 53: Darrow, p. 497
"Ah, I see the Ash Lord has become most literal indeed."
- Apollonius au Valii-Rath
Iron Gold, ch. 60: Darrow, p. 563
"If I have to share air with this Corespawn any longer, I’ll castrate him.” She looks between my legs and raises a notched eyebrow. “If anatomically possible."
- Seraphina au Raa
Dark Age, ch. 2: Lysander: Annihilo, p. 17
"Do you know what I learned from my father’s death? Not to ramble."
- Diomedes au Raa
Dark Age, ch. 2: Lysander: Annihilo, p. 19
"I hope everyone relished their breakfast. You’ll see it again soon."
- Colloway xe Char
Dark Age, ch. 11: Darrow: Red Reach, p. 85
"Senator Telemanus. I must admit, the architecture certainly makes a statement. It is a remarkable man who can bare his balls to the world."
- Publius cu Caraval
Dark Age, ch. 20: Virginia: Politicos, p. 165
"I confess. I have always viewed Sevro as a marginal character in our great endeavor. He is ill-tempered, rash, and braggadocious in nature. I don’t know if he’s ever read a book. Let me loose, and I will subdue the illiterate halfman in short order."
- Daxo au Telemanus
Dark Age, ch. 20: Virginia: Politicos, p. 166
"Only fascists should make cities. Demokrats never have a salient thesis."
- Ephraim ti Horn
Dark Age, ch. 22: Ephraim: Unshorn, p. 175
"This horse rides for only one man."
- Virginia au Augustus
Dark Age, ch. 26: Virginia: The Goblin's Prey, p. 211
"Gift from the gods.” I roll my eyes. “We’re flying in a spaceship. Your ancestors were made in test tubes. The nightgaze by a drunk Violet. And you believe in gods? Hell, I get the racket. For a man you’ve done right fine by yourself with the matriarchs. But stop trying to con a conman."
- Ephraim ti Horn
Dark Age, ch. 41: Ephraim: Obsidian Rising, p. 346
"An idealist. Don’t fret, it’s a temporary condition."
- Atlas au Raa
Dark Age, ch. 59: Lysander: The Impaler, p. 505
"I…don’t think you quite understand where Darrow is going, or how he goes places, or what he does when he gets there. I’ve been on the other side of the equation…how do I say it? It’s utter carnage.”"
- Cassius au Bellona
Light Bringer, ch. 4: Darrow: The Sordid Affair, p. 31
"Had I a moonBreaker in my palm, I’d shake even the devil’s hand with a grin."
- Atlas au Raa
Light Bringer, ch. 7: Lysander: The Ally Idiot, p. 65
"I was used as a bus driver for a spy I’m in love with who I thought rescued me because she thought I was a hero, whose protégé chose to become a tyrant and shoot my best friend’s protégé in the head—whom I find out was the paragon of honor.” He smiles. “I’m over the moon, goodman."
- Cassius au Bellona
Light Bringer, ch. 11: Darrow: Inheritance, p. 111
"Of all the people to clone, it had to be the creepiest."
- Cassius au Bellona
Light Bringer, ch. 11: Darrow: Inheritance, p. 112
"Go fuck yourself, Lysander."
- Ajax au Grimmus
Light Bringer, ch. 15: Lysander: Earth, p. 149
"when it comes to breaking a planet, it takes tonnage, Newtons, manpower, and a strong stomach—most of your men will die. Why do you think Darrow and I are the only assholes who take planets?"