Peter Orullian > Quotes

“That's when I learned the hardest truth about vengeance: it had no logical end, served no real purpose, except perhaps to delay grief.”
― Peter Orullian, Unfettered

“The difference between a player and a musician is honesty. Not craft or ability or experience. The listener hears it every time. And honesty is more quickly understood through suffering.”
― Peter Orullian, The Unremembered

“If you get the words right, you can go anywhere. —Author proverb, taken as an expression of fancy”
― Peter Orullian, The Unremembered

“Poetry. Real poetry. One neither writes nor reads it well, unless she’s suffered. And arguing the point just proves you’re too happy to know the difference.”
― Peter Orullian, The Unremembered

“Precisely. Aren't we all just tourists of a type, inhabiting our bodies for what little time we have on this planet?”
― Peter Orullian, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory

“You know everything you need to know about a man by the way he treats his wife and child. —Engraving in the lintel above the door at Hambley’s Inn, the Hollows”
― Peter Orullian, The Unremembered