Talis Jones > Quotes

“Roars chanting for our souls fill my ears and I swallow back my fear one drop at a time. Let them come.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“The truth is a myriad of perspectives. None false to its owner, yet none true to its neighbor. Not quite. Not exactly.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“So you're not dead, huh?"

I grin cockily as I lean against the nearest bedpost. "Not yet.”
― Talis Jones, Solus

“Each clash of swords and cymbals. Each strike of the shields and drums. Each pluck of the hearts and the violins. Each collision of flesh burst with bloody melody. The battle crescendoed mirthlessly raising all the little tingling hairs on the body in its cry.

Then Aztlan began to shudder and wane...”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“I'm just a lost ghost caught in a riptide.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“I believe there is good in everyone. Perhaps we are born with darkness or perhaps it is but a deal we make, but that does not mean that we must be consumed by it.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow

“I have many names. The name my parents gave me. The name my equals gave me. The name my masters gave me. The name I gave myself. The name scorched into the wind when my body was ripped from my soul.
But that’s not today.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“Tears aren't a display of weakness, they are a testimony of strength. Tears show the world that you can go through darkness and come out the other side victorious even if it hurts for a time. It proves that you have not let this earth tear away your heart.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“Why can't I get it right, Titus?"

"Because you are too arrogant to understand what you did wrong," he muttered sorrowfully.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow

“I learned rather quickly not to be shocked in this place. Just absorb the information, process it, then act accordingly. There is no room for shock.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow

“NO.”
BANG. BANG. BANG.
Drop. Drop. Howl.

I crouch there. Eyes wide. Breath stopped. Brain stuck. Feeling gone. Ears empty.

Slowly. Slowly. Slowly my brain takes my hand gently and explains what my eyes saw, what my ears heard, what my mind doesn’t want to know but must know all the same.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“Just for a moment they were able to forget and in forgetting they remembered what war had threatened to erase.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow

“I'm gonna die someday, and it'll be sooner rather than later, but I'm gonna take a bit of the wrong with me when I do.”
― Talis Jones, Dust to Dust

“She needed him to feel alone. She needed him to feel the darkness like she did.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow

“Did I tell you how I loved you the moment I first saw you in Tennessee?" he murmurs. His voice has a wistful quality like he's picturing the moment right now.

I turn to him surprised. "Really? The moment you saw me? When I was a smelly six-year old girl who hadn't bathed in a week, was covered in other kids' sweat, had snot on my sleeves and tear stains on my face and dirt matted in my hair? That moment? That had you struck by love at first sight?"

"Yep," he grins.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“They were never told exactly what became of the hero after the quest was completed or after the prince had been crowned king. But the battle had been won. They could not prolong fate any longer. It was time to find out what exactly hid entailed in those famous words: Happily. Ever. After.”
― Talis Jones

“I'm just trying to keep this girl I love alive in one piece."

"Well that's boring."

"Not the way you make it.”
― Talis Jones, Dust to Dust

“Alea iacta est. The die is cast.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“It's the perfect adventure.
It's naive. It's insane. It's a death sentence.
But I gotta do it.
I'm gonna do it.
I'm a junkie with one eye on the edge and the other on the freedom fall after it.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“I wanted too much out of my life. I wanted so much that I ended up with nothing.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“Soaked and utterly drained I drag myself out of the river and scoop up my clothes but Connors stops me before I can slip on my jeans.

"Did you not hear me, child? I said the feeling of wet jeans was designed by the devil."

I stare at him waiting for a laugh but his face is so hilariously serious that I drop the pants and hold up my hands in surrender.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“I am the game master here and I will not be toyed with by my greatest disappointment.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow

“Smoke singes our nostrils and wails assault our ears but our eyes receive the worst of it. Carbon wreckage litters the village and sightless bodies are dragged from the fires while others scramble to douse the flames. Blood paints the road a glistening red and everywhere I look I see anger.”
― Talis Jones, Solus

“If I had to pay a penny for your every thought I'd be piss poor before the day is over.”
― Talis Jones, Dust to Dust

“I want to be the hero for once."

Titus gave him an appraising look. He ceased pacing and fixed his ancient gaze upon the child. "That is not a gift.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“Never go to bed angry, they say. But like a stubborn coward I did and now my heart bleeds at the price.”
― Talis Jones, Dust to Dust

“Followers, soldiers, supporters. I have them all in vast numbers. But friends? They're a different sort of beast I am still learning to hunt.”
― Talis Jones, Crooked Raven

“I have many names. The name my parents gave me. The name my equals gave me. The name my masters gave me. The name I gave myself. The name scorched into the wind when my body was ripped from my soul.

A name gives something identity, and I've come to realize that a name doesn't matter if you didn't choose it yourself. I was born with the name Sofia Ramsey and I died with the names Fury and Ma thrown into the air with all the hatred and desperation a soul can muster.

I'm gonna tell you about that day but it hasn't come yet.
It's not today.
I breathe slowly and a cooling comfort stirs my lungs.
It's not today.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“They fought with a trained formality and I was a rabid creature set loose upon them following no rules except savagery to end the fights as quick as I could. I left my humanity behind focused on one word: survive.”
― Talis Jones, Alarum

“I'd thought our bond stronger. In the end it was not of diamond, but pretty glass.”
― Talis Jones, Carrion Crow