Miles Lyon > Quotes

“But mostly because who fucking expects a 350-pound mage that can stretch time to just show up out of the blue in order to prevent you from killing a psychopathic traitor?”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“Children. Elders. Enemies. They’re all made of the same meat and blood. You know that. They know that even better.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“It’s funny the things that hurt you in life. Sure, there’s the blades and spears and axes, the sharp and pointy edges, but I’m talking about the things that really hurt you. The words that leave scars. The mornings where you’re covered in invisible scrapes. The little sights and sounds and smells that come haunting back to crack them open and leave them bleeding again. The fragments.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“Another pregnant pause filled the silence, the heaviness of it an eerie weight in the dark storeroom.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“I see. So, you’ve made yourself the biggest shark in the smallest pond?” I said. “No. As you so eloquently put earlier, I’ve made myself the only shark in the fucking pond. And now, when the minnows want to swim, they come to ask my blessing.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“I’m reminded of an adage of dishes and the ways they’re best served.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“I’m everyone’s type of woman.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“Evil does tend to bleed from the most beautiful of places. The most beautiful of things.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“I found neither of them as sharp or worrisome as the look he had upon his face.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“Truth is a simple death.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“Monologues are cool. They build up drama. There’s a reason that the theater uses them to imitate life. They ensure the villain looks as savage and smart as possible, frames the hero in an even brighter light. But the thing is, I never said I was a hero. I said I was a killer. In fact, I’m the best. And I’ve learned that sometimes, when it comes to killing, you just have to take your opportunities when they’re presented. And when Hauron turned his back on me, when he started to walk towards that scaffold in his rage, I knew I had a chance to eradicate him.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“I guess, despite the stories, I didn’t expect it to be so fucking enormous.” “Words every woman dreams of speaking.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“Peace,” he spat, like a piece of meat that had soured, mouth unhinged and eyes hollow. “Just another name for a different kind of war.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“She was the same drunken, cursing bitch that had gone to war with me all those years ago.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“Time kills everyone in the end.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“Maybe it was simply the reminder that magic comes back for us all in the end, no matter how clever we are about the price.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“In any fight, it is the tongue which first draws blood, Arkimidas wrote.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“But there’s no such thing as a fair fight. Not with blades. Not with magic. Not with fists. There’s no do-overs. There’s just mistakes and capitalizing on them.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear

“There are three things in life that you should always be grateful for: cheap liquor, hot sex, and peaceful reunions with good friends.”
― Miles Lyon, The Price of Fear