Karen Azinger > Quotes

“Courage comes in the form of a girl.”
― Karen Azinger, The Steel Queen

“In the beginning there was only Darkness.”
― Karen Azinger, The Steel Queen

“Seek Knowledge, Protect Knowledge, Share Knowledge.”
― Karen Azinger, The Steel Queen

“An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men.”
― Karen Azinger, The Assassin's Tear

“For Honor and the Octagon!”
― Karen Azinger, The Steel Queen

“Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.”
― Karen Azinger, The Steel Queen

“Desire is often the greatest poison.”
― Karen Azinger, The Poison Priestess

“With crowds the whole was so much less than the sum of the parts. Individuals unconsciously surrendered their intelligence and their morals to join the crowd’s collective mind in exchange for false feelings of invincibility. It was almost as if a new entity was born, an entity susceptible to suggestions and ruled by the baser instincts of man. It was so much easier to twist a man’s soul once he’d joined a crowd. A decent man caught up in the mentality of the crowd would do unspeakable things, things that would forever taint his soul. Once twisted to the Dark side few found their way back to the Light”
― Karen Azinger, The Steel Queen

“Life was a destiny waiting to be seized.”
― Karen Azinger, The Knight Marshal

“He'd chase her to Hell and back if needs be, but whether it was for love, or lust, or power, he did not know.”
― Karen Azinger, The Knight Marshal

“If theme is the soul of a story, then the characters are its beating heart.”
― Karen Azinger, Power Writing: Make Your Genre Fiction Soar

“Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form.”
― Karen Azinger, The Poison Priestess

“She knew them all by name and by nature. Some were aromatic, others beautiful, but all were poisonous, her garden of deathly delights.”
― Karen Azinger, The Steel Queen

“They rode into the unknown, death as their only guide.”
― Karen Azinger, The Skeleton King

“Is ridicule their only weapon against a girl?”
― Karen Azinger, The Battle Immortal

“Divide by gender, divide by race, divide by beliefs. These are the three great divides.”
― Karen Azinger, The Skeleton King

“Themes are the very souls of stories.”
― Karen Azinger, Power Writing: Make Your Genre Fiction Soar

“Trusting to the simple disguise of being merely women.”
― Karen Azinger, The Prince Deceiver

“We've seen firsthand the footprints of the Mordant's treachery.”
― Karen Azinger, The Flame Priest

“Look for me in the crest of a wave, in the shape of a cloud, or in the elegance of an equation. Science is some of my best work. Seek knowledge and you shall find me.”
― Karen Azinger, The Assassin's Tear

“In this crowded field of publishing, originality is king.”
― Karen Azinger, Power Writing: Make Your Genre Fiction Soar

“They send a girl to slay a god.”
― Karen Azinger, The Battle Immortal

“Listening from the shadows, the Mordant sought lies worthy of embellishments and truths needing to be quashed.”
― Karen Azinger, The Prince Deceiver

“The gods grant a strange power to those who are overlooked, the power to do the unexpected.”
― Karen Azinger, The Battle Immortal

“From the moment we are born, we are swaddled in stories.”
― Karen Azinger, Power Writing: Make Your Genre Fiction Soar

“gray, that moral murkiness where any decision might hold sway.”
― Karen Azinger, The Poison Priestess

“Plots within plots, such was the business of killing kings.”
― Karen Azinger, The Flame Priest

“Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten.”
― Karen Azinger, The Skeleton King

“Taming a city is a thorny problem, so different from conquering it.”
― Karen Azinger, The Skeleton King

“Taken to the highest form, description should be both a window to the world and a mirror reflection the heart and soul of the point-of-view character.”
― Karen Azinger, Power Writing: Make Your Genre Fiction Soar