M.H. Foster > Quotes

“Goats,” I said with a shrug. “They’ll eat anything.” “That was a three-hundred-gold-crown precision instrument!” “Should’ve made it goat-proof then.”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

“My life went back into a routine. Wake up”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

“The philosophy of humans, perpetually finding silver linings in clouds that were obviously full of lightning.”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

“Maybe sometimes my actions could be considered snooping”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

“I am the Destroyer of Worlds,” I told him. “I have brought empires to their knees.” “Baaaah,” he replied and began eating my bootlaces midair.”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

“Now I held both his wrists, and I squeezed. Just enough. Just precisely enough for him to understand that what he thought were bones in his arms were really just privileges I was allowing him to keep.”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

“That night”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

“Alright,” I said. Also ale was tasty. If there was ever going to be peace between Demons”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

“What was it humans said? When sorrow gives you screams”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

“These don’t taste half bad,” Mrs. Crankshaw admitted, holding one of my turnips like it might explode. Each positive word seemed physically painful for her to speak. “For an amateur’s work,” she added hastily, as if to relieve the pressure all the compliments must have been exerting on her soul.”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

“Like the air before lightning, but backward. Like honey that remembers being poison.”
― M.H. Foster, Love, Politics, and Other Acts of War

“Clara Thornfield arrived on a Thursday, which should have been my first warning. Good things never happened on Thursdays.”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

“Children”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

“What demon would possibly spend countless hours in a room stuffed with holy relics? One that enjoyed a tan”
― M.H. Foster, Love, Politics, and Other Acts of War

“If the armies of humanity had been even half as organized as the villagers of Lower Middleton when it came to festivities during their crusades against me”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

“When you’re older, you’ll understand the satisfaction of a well-organized root cellar.”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

“My head snapped up. What in the name of me was going on?”
― M.H. Foster, Band of Others

“He constantly repeated that “the children are our future,” which is all fine, except the fool actually meant it!”
― M.H. Foster, Love, Politics, and Other Acts of War

“Blisters. Me. The Being who’d once arm-wrestled the concept of Entropy itself to a draw.”
― M.H. Foster, The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan