Henry Reign > Quotes

“To fantasize is to fertilize that dark garden growing inside your head.”
― Valentin V., No More Normies: The First Notebook

“For the people hate the truth, and dislike my pretense.
I don’t have a lot to give.”
― Valentin V., No More Normies: The First Notebook

“Are my thoughts too analog for this digital age?”
― Valentin V., No More Normies: The First Notebook

“The pot is all but rust and bent with only a few spots of silver in it. A poet could see a galaxy in it. If only words could make one warm – if only warmth could live on like the words of a great poet.”
― Henry Reign, When Fire Met Rain

“Women usually tell that version of the truth which flatters them the most.”
― Valentin V., No More Normies: The First Notebook

“My mother had said sometime that spices are not tastes themselves, but sort of enhancers that bring out certain characteristics of whatever they’re eaten with, like keys to open locks of flavor. So to this theory if you applied yourself, only taking the spice itself into mouth, say a pinch of salt on your tongue – you could actually taste some part of yourself you didn’t know.”
― Henry Reign, When Fire Met Rain

“But a man must have peaches if he comes upon a very bad day. Without peaches in syrup there’s nothing to look forward to and so man stays put, and so a man drowns.”
― Henry Reign, When Fire Met Rain

“I wish I had realized then just how important it is to wander around, doing nothing, smelling all those flowers.”
― Henry Reign, When Fire Met Rain

“The girl fixes her position, so that her back is against the dull side of the blade. Fun to think how they didn’t make it sharp both sides. Maybe some people don’t deserve the sharp side. Or maybe dulling evil is more effective than simply killing it.”
― Henry Reign, When Fire Met Rain

“To be sad because one is sad – that’s a cheap kind of sad, a kind of sad you find in proud people that think they’re better but don’t have anything to show for it. The Rainmaker is sad for no reason at all. He’s just sad. There’s something noble about it, admitting you can’t leash your emotions like a sailor does with wind.”
― Henry Reign, When Fire Met Rain

“Give anything a decade and even the freshest pleasure dulls into a big portion of boredom.”
― Henry Reign, When Fire Met Rain

“The Rainmaker sleeps a different kind of sleep, a kind of sleep where you don’t dream but think — very deeply, as if enhanced by the night. Guarding sleep. The sleep of someone who cares too much about others to surrender into the void. The sleep of a sad man who thinks he’s accountable for others’ happy but not his own.”
― Henry Reign, When Fire Met Rain