Ed Crocker > Quotes

“But why in the Bloodhalls should I trust you?” he says eventually, staring into the fire. “Because,” I reply, “if someone sought to hurt you, they wouldn’t send a drunk mage arse like me, would they?”
― Ed Crocker, Lightfall

“I look down. To show anger now would be exactly what the bastard wants. His words are waves, and I let them wash over me, soothing my fire.”
― Ed Crocker, Lightfall

“Well,” she concludes, relaxing her face and giving me her widest smile yet, “let us plan our conclusion to this little alliance.” I return the grin. “Yes. Let’s rob a bank.”
― Ed Crocker, Lightfall

“I love books too much. What began as a survival plan turned into obsession, I suppose.”
― Ed Crocker, Lightfall

“I will read the rites of the Blood Gods over an urn containing my youngest son’s ashes. Then the Gothia of the Bloodhalls will read the psalms of entry, preparing my son, still trapped in the ashes, for his journey there, and the urn will be carried out of the square and to the nearby suncrypt. There it will rest until lightfall the following day, when the sun will stream through the aperture in the roof of the crypt directly onto the ashes and take my son up into his afterlife.”
― Ed Crocker, Lightfall

“I think,” says Alanna, “that what m’lady is trying to say is that one day you wake up and you’re tired of fuckin’ with the Lords one by one, and if you see a chance to fuck with them all, it’s a wise decision to take it, by and by.”
― Ed Crocker, Lightfall

“He was not the kind of vampire you would expect in the Bloodhalls; not the blood-guzzling, womanizing, sun-mocking lord of darkness that most look forward to becoming if they have the bad luck to swap immortality for ashes. Either the Bloodhalls would have to adapt or my son would.”
― Ed Crocker, Lightfall

“All of which is a long way of saying I shoved my claws down his throat and pulled out his organs through his mouth as his eyes watched me, full of the question why, a question I never answered.”
― Ed Crocker, Lightfall