Rhett C. Bruno > Quotes

“We don't take kindly to defecating the dead," he said. He meant desecrating, but I let it go. He'd had a bad enough day.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Cold As Hell

“The man who seeks vengeance should start by digging two graves.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Cold as Hell

“Powerful men didn’t lock people in rooms unless they had a good reason to.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, The Collector

“New Beijing, Mars. The domed city was as wild a place as you could find in Sol”
― Rhett C. Bruno, The Collector

“The Revelation Sheriff bent down directly in my face and sneered. "Welcome to Revelation.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Cold As Hell

“There was less than one day until my eyes would never open again.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, This Long Vigil

“What strange acquaintances I've got these days…”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Cold As Hell

“Don’t think about The Lord of the Rings if you don’t even get the references, fool of a Took.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, An Unexpected Hero

“but you know what they say about plans . . . Men make ’em. God laughs.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Cold as Hell

“Maybe I just want to feel something, anything, besides the constant numbness I’ve felt for so long.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Cold As Hell

“Rebecca was the first to be assembled at this facility.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, The Collector

“Like your kind spared us, Łiga Ndeeń!?” she spat in a heavy accent.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Cold as Hell

“But when the sun goes down in the West, and the wolves start their song, it's hard not to clench a bit tighter on the reins. People aren’t afraid of being alone in the dark. They're afraid of not being alone in the dark. And friend, I'll tell you one thing: you ain't never alone. Not ever.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Cold As Hell

“An alliance was only an alliance until the interests of one party outweighed the benefits of the union.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, The Buried Goddess Saga: The Complete Series: (An Epic Fantasy Boxed Set: Books 1-6)

“I couldn’t end my life sealed in a chamber. My long sleep was approaching. The one I had chosen.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, This Long Vigil

“She was always eager to seem adventurous, but I knew, deep down in that horsey heart of hers, she was happier moseying around, finding stray strands of grass to gnaw on.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Cold As Hell

“shoddy construction. Each of the three wielded”
― Rhett C. Bruno, The Complete Circuit Trilogy

“You need a special kind of someone to shoot first and ask questions later. Or choose never to ask at all. That fella is me. The name's James Crowley, but most days, I'm just a goddamned Hand of God.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Cold As Hell

“The edge of reality is so very thin in our world today.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Vicarious

“This was a Nephilim—the result of the heinous act of Lucifer’s Fallen sticking their vile little peckers where they don’t belong.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Cold as Hell

“Humans were hurting other humans and finding joy in it. Forget money, this was the root of all evil.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, The Luna Missile Crisis

“The Nephilim were on the earth at that time, when those divine beings were having relations with human women, who gave birth to children for them. —Genesis 6:”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Cold as Hell

“I’d been brought back to pay off my debts. A sort of purgatory, if you will. However, no amount of goodness was gonna get me through the pearly gates.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Cold As Hell

“I'm hazy on the exact details besides having been shot up, left for the worms, and brought back years later to find myself stuck on this side of eternity, serving the whims and fancies of angels.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Cold As Hell

“Let’s end the fucking nightmare and see what’s on the other side, huh? See where monsters go.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, The Roach

“Yes… I surely was ten years of age when I gave birth to my daughter. Flattery stops working once the hairs turn gray, Whitney Fierstown. I’d have thought you’d know that by now.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Way of Gods

“Ding! You nailed it. And it’s on the back of a turtle.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, An Unexpected Hero

“Best thing we can learn from our parents is how to make better choices.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, The Roach

“Once we see our parents’ failures, there is no room to remain a child.”
― Rhett C. Bruno, The Complete Circuit Trilogy

“I love women”
― Rhett C. Bruno, Web of Eyes