Robert V.S. Redick > Quotes

“The mighty are beggars, child. They rattle silver cups by the roadside, pleading for love.”
― Robert V.S. Redick

“We are all young beneath the watchful stars.”
― Robert V.S. Redick, The Night of the Swarm

“No man can know his deliverer, nor yet the thief of his soul. Their faces are covered; they swirl in the mob at the masquerade ball. Wine flows, and dance follows dance, and we are never certain of their names until that Midnight when all masks are removed”
― Robert VS Redick

“Sólo cuando un mago comparte su sueño con otro, las cosas que de otro modo serían imposibles se convierten en posibles. Como por ejemplo, saber escoger bien.”
― Robert V.S. Redick, The Rats and the Ruling Sea

“Be silent, and sit down, for you are drunk, and this is the edge of the roof. —RUMI”
― Robert V.S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy

“We are not blood and gristle and hair and spit. We are ideas, if we are anything at all. That part of us that was never truly living is the only part of us that cannot die.”
― Robert V.S. Redick, The Rats and the Ruling Sea

“Dream tears are like nothing else in human experience: a plunge into total feeling, a ripping away of words, lie, excuses, of the bandages we have been winding about ourselves since we first learned to speak”
― Robert V.S. Redick, The Night of the Swarm

“Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are a god. —JEAN ROSTAND”
― Robert V.S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy

“First Mate Uskins laughed: a sound like a sheep poked with a dagger.”
― Robert V.S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy

“Pazel had won the last round: Jervik was indeed afraid to stab him in front of witnesses. But in the dark it was another matter: in the dark things were done in a frenzy, and later explained away.”
― Robert V.S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy

“Hercol was simply unwilling to kill. Tholjassans revere life, he had told Ott years ago, possibly the last time they had spoken. So do we, Ott had answered. But sometimes a knife in the dark is the only way to prove it.”
― Robert V.S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy

“Survival lay in good sense, not in bravado. Yet it was easier to provoke bravado than thought.”
― Robert V.S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy

“Be silent, and sit down, for you are drunk, and this is the edge of the roof. RUMI”
― Robert V.S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy

“a man who pokes tigers with a stick will one day be mauled. You can take the stick away, but he’ll find another.”
― Robert V.S. Redick, Master Assassins