Sara King > Quotes

“Until then, I suggest you begin hoarding things like cigarettes, coffee, drugs, alcohol, soap—especially concentrated, antibacterial dish detergent—rope, wire, antibiotics, birth control pills, matches, ammunition, airtight storage containers, water purification systems, vegetable seeds, potatoes, marijuana seeds, knives, guns, salt, spices, and flammable liquids. ”
― Sara King, Zero's Return

“Then, at the woman’s flicker of disappointment, he realized he was turning down a date with a pretty lady because he wanted to play yet another game of solitaire with Jim Beam.  I’m getting to be an old man, he thought, with a start. ”
― Sara King, Zero's Return

“he mentally calculated the brand, age, and capacity of the machine in front of him, Slade gave a delighted giggle.  Early twenty-first century technology was so buggy, especially systems using a Windows environment—which this clearly was. ”
― Sara King, Zero's Return

“Blaze grabbed a hammer off the front cargo bin, swiveled, and slammed the head into Jack’s fingers.  Jack swore and released the 4-wheeler, which suddenly lunged forward, and Blaze, with only one hand on the handlebars, accidentally pulled it sideways, and the machine hit the side, rolled, threw her off the seat, and ended up on its side, pinning her body under a tire. A few seconds later, Jack walked up, sucking on his knuckles, glaring at her. Blaze, who had been unable to push the thing off of her, and was finding it hard to breathe, just glowered up at him. Jack took the machine in one hand, lifted it, still sucking on his knuckles, and set it right-side up beside her.  Scowling, he bent and offered a palm, lips still wrapped around”
― Sara King, Alaskan Fire

“The engine of liberty must be greased with the blood of both the oppressors and the oppressed.  There is no better lubrication for something so prone to rust and seizure.” Sirius Vant, in a speech to the Sun Dogs, Unknown Planet, Aashaanti Corridor, final stages of the Triton Wars”
― Sara King, Fortune's Rising

“Sometimes you’ve gotta stand up for yourself, even when you know you ain’t got a chance.”
― Sara King, Forging Zero

“Men, Blaze had learned from hundreds of lonely nights at the bar, did not like their women taller than them,”
― Sara King, Alaskan Fire

“He was turned on because she was naked and pretty, not because she could kick his ass. ”
― Sara King, Zero's Return

“Don’t change the subject,” Blaze snapped.  “You said dragons?  And untie me, damn it.  My wrists hurt.” He shrugged, completely ignoring her complaints.  “Of course there are dragons.  Where you think the myths come from?”
― Sara King, Alaskan Fire

“center of her face.  “Cute nose.”  He gently brushed her”
― Sara King, Alaskan Fire

“Those men who on the off-chance happened to be taller than her often had some genetic species-survival switch tripped in their brain that made them crave women on the opposite end of the height spectrum, to balance out the gene pool. ”
― Sara King, Alaskan Fire

“The word of a sociopath is fluid, at best. ”
― Sara King, Fortune's Rising

“It is like your entire species is filled with archons, Encephalon said, sounding angry, now.  All of them scurrying to their own individual rhythm, all of them struggling against each other, thwarting each other, slowing progress exponentially due to their selfish pursuit of their own whims, having no idea the danger you are all in.”
― Sara King, Fortune's Folly

“He hissed upon seeing the oozing cuts and gouges. ”
― Sara King, Fortune's Rising

“To her surprise, Jack didn’t seem at all fazed by all the exotic ideas she had had and wanted to try.  She detailed them out, from a small single-story greenhouse that incorporated rabbit hutches to an extensive two-story generator-powered setup with pigs, cows, and chickens on the upper story, their excrement washed down through gunnels by a sprinkler system where it hit a vat, fermented, created methane to run the generator, and then was fed through a hydroponics system directly to the roots of the plants she was trying to grow.”
― Sara King, Alaskan Fire

“If you wanna plan for the long-run, stock up on paper, antibiotics, entertainment items, how-to books, and soap.  If you’re more interested in short-term gains, I’d say stick with knives, seeds, drugs, booze, coffee, and cigarettes. ”
― Sara King, Zero's Return

“The idea of putting that stuff on her soldier was actually bringing her close to an orgasm. ”
― Sara King, Fortune's Folly

“It was the egg,” Slade snapped, “because the mutation began with the misreplication of DNA during fertilization of the embryo and its development.  It wasn’t like an adult bird just magically became a mutant chicken that started popping out more chickens.  I have always thought it was an incredibly stupid question, and whoever came up with it obviously had no background in or understanding of science.” “Personally,”
― Sara King, The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin

“Well, God hates a coward,”
― Sara King, The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin

“The females of this planet, raised with pillows and primping and perfumes, had no recourse when the lowlife scumbags, suddenly free of all the rules and restrictions of society, started doing things like forming ‘tribes,’ ‘claiming’ women and taking ‘slaves.”
― Sara King, Zero's Return

“Slade blinked at them, and it actually took him a moment to retrace his steps and figure out what the hell had happened in the moron’s pea brain to create such a catastrophic /fail.  Realizing the inebriates probably had no idea what a palanquin was—and that they had heard the ‘port’ part of porter and thought he meant a sweet red wine, Slade almost walked over, took Tyson’s gun, and blew off his own head rather than spend one more minute surrounded by such painfully clear dumbassery. ”
― Sara King, Zero's Return

“You saw Bronze Age, the Iron Age, and you may or may not have seen the Stone Age. This is the Condom Age. Today, we have ways to keep girls from getting pregnant from a night of hot, mind-blowing sex.”
― Sara King, Alaskan Fire

“These people need a hero, Slade thought, with a sigh.  And I’m running out of Twinkie.”
― Sara King, Zero's Return

“Still, the guy made her nervous.  Really nervous.  Kinda like watching a cannibal eating an unknown pot roast.”
― Sara King, Sunny with a Chance of Monsters

“Thank you, Joe Dobbs ga Badass ga Male Model ga Chiseled Pecs.”
― Sara King, Zero's Return

“God hates a coward.”
― Sara King, Forging Zero

“Blaze said, watching”
― Sara King, Alaskan Fire

“On the bright side,” he went on, gesturing to the massive quantities of alcohol they had laid out on the table for their lackeys, “You get to drink loads of expensive whiskey, instead.” “I don’t like whiskey,” Tyson told him.  “I like steak knives.” “Poddite,” Slade sighed. Tyson squinted at him.  “What?” “Poddite,” Slade said, carefully arranging his plastic cutlery.  “It means that your uninspired tastes mark you as one of the mindless ranks of pod-people that mechanically wander this earth, doing whatever their television or personal devices tell them to, like drinking piss because it’s been marketed as ‘refreshing.’” ”
― Sara King, Zero's Return

“trying to stragedize out how he was going to get out of this particular cluster. ”
― Sara King, Zero's Return

“Damn Kihgl. That wasn’t his fault. It was Knaaren’s fault for eating him.”
― Sara King, Forging Zero