Travis Baldree > Quotes

“Things don’t have to stay as what they started out as.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“WHAT FLAMES COULD NOT CONSUME,
NEVER SHALL BE EXTINGUISHED”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“it was like drinking the feeling of being peaceful. Being peaceful in your mind. Well, not if you have too much, then it’s something else.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“Because I’m headed down the hill, and you’re headed up it. I’m just glad we chanced to meet on the way.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“She was smiling, and for the first time, the building, the city, this place… felt like hers. A place she’d still be tomorrow, the week after, next season, next year…. Home.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“So. I might not deserve you. And you might forgive too much. But I’m damned glad to have you.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“The combined aromas of hot cinnamon, ground coffee, and sweet cardamom intoxicated her, and as she brewed and smiled and served and chatted, a deep contentment welled up. It was a glowing warmth she’d never experienced before, and she liked it. She liked it a great deal.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“I don't know if I can explain it, but watching you read what I give you, putting a book in your hands and seeing what happens to you once you put it back down... I can't make you understand how that gives me something I didn't know I had to have.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Live long enough, you realize some folks can be handed a problem and some tools, and they’ll sort it out. And I never think twice about hiring that sort of fellow.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“Well, shit. Milky bean water. I'll be damned.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“Never trust a writer who doesn’t have too many books to read. Or a reader, for that matter,” said Zelia.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Shut up, you insufferable shitweasel,”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“Every book is a little mirror, and sometimes you look into it and see someone else looking back.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“See you in the story past the story.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Calamity." His own callused paw was swallowed by hers.
Her eyes widened.
"Hob name," he said. "You can call me Cal."
"Whichever you like best. I don't need your name to suit me.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“You know, there’s a lot of people out there. Lot of noise. I love what I do, love it every day, but none of us sees more than a tiny piece of all the world, like we’re lookin’ out a little-bitty window. And I saw you through mine, and somethin’ inside me said, ‘That’s somebody you oughta know.’ Simple as that.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“You do something for years and years, and the only reason you continue is because once you stop, you won't really have anything.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“After twenty-two years of adventuring, Viv had reached her limit of blood and mud and bullshit. An orc’s life was strength and violence and a sudden, sharp end—but she’d be damned if she’d let hers finish that way. It was time for something new.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“I was just thinking that you don’t have to forget who you were … because that’s what brought you here.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“You’re just trying to make it to the other end, and while you’re in it, there’s nothing to either side. Only the way forward. You know, the tunnel. Maybe when you find a way out, you can look around, but until then …”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“If there was any justice in the world, I'd never have met you, much less have even a scrap of your regard. And for a while... I thought maybe I'd cheated fate to have you near me. That I was bending the rules—forcing some impossible streak of luck—and any moment, you'd find out who I really was, and then you'd be gone. (...) But what a stupid thing to think. Unfair to you. Did I think so little of you? Did I think you couldn't see who I was, really? Was I foolish enough to believe I could make you see something other than what was there?”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“Ladies' stockin's and exotic bean water. Gods help us.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“Then, in a rush, “I was just thinking that you don’t have to forget who you were … because that’s what brought you here.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“I'm used to sleeping rough.'
'Used to ain't the same as ought to.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“Well,” breathed Fern, surveying the interior with both brows raised. “Fuck me.”

Satchel drew back from her in alarm, and his eyes seemed to widen as the flames within them burned brighter.

Viv leaned down near his skull and whispered, “It’s just a figure of speech, not a request.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“His eyes widened. “Well, shit. Milky bean water. I’ll be damned.” He took another, longer sip and burned his tongue.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“have to be fully rid of it. Not yet.” Then, in a rush, “I was just thinking that you don’t have to forget who you were … because that’s what brought you here.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“I used to be an adventurer like you.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“You've found a very peaceful place here. A special place. You've planted something, and now its blossoming. Very nice. A good spot to rest. My thanks to you for letting an old-timer shade under the branches of what you've grown.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“Failure to act was as much a decision as any other.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes