Cameron Johnston > Quotes

“Nothing is ever quite as terrifying as your own mind.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“I was all for fighting dirty, but trying to bite a man’s cock off was just plain”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“a shovel to the face was every bit as good as a fancy sword.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“In this life you can do everything right and the worst can still happen. Sometimes it craps on you at the roll of a dice; mine just happened to come up all ones.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“From Hive, the party rode the sturdy slaver barge downriver to the coast. None of them had any experience in navigating anything larger than a puddle, never mind a river swollen with winter melt water, so it swiftly became a nerve-racking trip for all involved.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Maleficent Seven

“If you were that way inclined then you wouldn’t have spent half your life penniless and puking in a gutter – you’d be off in some marble palace somewhere living like a lord and drinking yourself blind on fine wine. You wouldn’t be slumming it with a godsdamned lady of sheets to find out who killed an old friend.” “Charra–” She waved a dismissive hand. “I own the words, Walker. They can’t hurt me. Other people won’t forget what I was, so neither should I. And I meant every word.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“PROLOGUE Fortress of Rakatoll, day twenty-three of the siege. Seven hours before it all went to shit.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Maleficent Seven

“I’d been disappointed far too many times for that, but everybody deserved a chance. What they made of it was up to them.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“If I wasn’t who and what I was then I didn’t think I’d ever have noticed the taint to my thoughts. There was no way to know how much the magic had altered me in body or mind. I shuddered, horrified, fighting the urge to vomit. When a magus gave in to the Worm it didn’t create something that wasn’t already there, it was far more insidious than that: it took what already existed and twisted it, stretched it out in obscene directions. Those thoughts were horribly, and entirely, the darkest whispers of my own mind.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“She came at me claws bared, then slowed as I found a crack in her mind, forced myself into the oozing darkness inside and ordered her to stop. Her mind was like sticking my hand up an angry badger’s arse – she fought me every step with feral rage like I had never felt before.”
― Cameron Johnston, God of Broken Things

“Nicholas stared at the bloody handprint on his shoulder. “Did you just see that?” Penny’s eyes were huge. “Aye. His cock is fucking massive.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Maleficent Seven

“Gold and silver are the greatest lubricants known to man. Greasing palms made everything easier”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“I would do what I was good at – sneaky bastardry and fucking people up when and where they were least expecting it.”
― Cameron Johnston, God of Broken Things

“Change if you want. Or don’t if you prefer. But decide now rather than later, for you can never know how long each of us have left.”
― Cameron Johnston, God of Broken Things

“Life is a farce and death an arse.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“Mighty magus? Yes, yes all very powerful, but so is a blade in the back, no?”
― Cameron Johnston, God of Broken Things

“Besides, you’d drown in darkness if you couldn’t laugh. Life is a farce and death an arse.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God