Luke Scull > Quotes

“Those with nothing but vengeance to live for are condemned by their own bitter victory.”
― Luke Scull, The Grim Company

“Jerek shook his head, the moonlight casting a shine on his bald scalp. “You’re turning into a right old pussy and that’s a fact.” Kayne sighed. “Age will do that to you.”
― Luke Scull, Sword of the North

“The measure of a people is found in how it treats those who have sacrificed for its survival.”
― Luke Scull, Dead Man's Steel

“Expect the worst and you can’t be disappointed. Optimism is the luxury of the young, the foolish and the dullard.”
― Luke Scull, The Grim Company

“When there are no gods to judge, who can say what is right or wrong?”
― Luke Scull, Dead Man's Steel

“The world's full of wonder, he said. Or at least horror that looks wondrous from afar.”
― Luke Scull

“Difference between a man and a cunt is that a man sticks to his word.”
― Luke Scull, Dead Man's Steel

“The great poets are full of bullshit. Love has nothing on hatred's capacity to give a man purpose.”
― Luke Scull, Sword of the North

“If the gods weren’t long dead, I might accuse them of lining up to take a shit on me.”
― Luke Scull, Dead Man's Steel

“The world’s full of wonder,” he said. “Or at least horror that looks wondrous from afar.”
― Luke Scull, The Grim Company

“Before you see the void behind his eyes. The emptiness where a soul should be.”
― Luke Scull, Dead Man's Steel

“Love is simply a willingness to reduce oneself in some way, for no other reason than the desire to elevate another.”
― Luke Scull, Dead Man's Steel

“The world seemed to go red. He wanted to scream his outrage, to charge at Skarn and tear the murdering bastard's face off with his bare teeth. But he knew that meant certain death. No, he had to be ice. Not fire, but ice.”
― Luke Scull, Sword of the North

“Sometimes a lie builds until the truth does more harm than good”
― Luke Scull, Sword of the North

“Well, bugger me.”
“Come again?”
“Bugger me, I said.” A heavy pause.
“Did you mean that literally or . . . what’s the word . . . figuratively? It’s just . . . we’ve been stuck on this ship for days now. A man has needs.”
― Luke Scull, Sword of the North

“He had the girl of his dreams waiting for him back in Dorminia. Even if he had possessed the coin, he’d be damned if he’d disrespect himself or Sasha by paying for such an average-looking hooker.”
― Luke Scull, Sword of the North

“Hell is defined by the limits of imagination - and imagination is defined through the limits of experience. True hell cannot be known until it has been lived.”
― Luke Scull, Dead Man's Steel

“No matter how pitiful that which is lost, the pain is never less than devastating when it is everything you have.”
― Luke Scull, Dead Man's Steel

“The expression on her face could have killed the passion of a thousand raging cocks stone dead.”
― Luke Scull, Sword of the North

“I was ancient when the tallest trees were saplings. I walked this world in a time of dragons and giants and worse things and I defeated them all. Do you know who I am?’ ‘Some cunt,’ rasped a voice like a wound tearing open.”
― Luke Scull, Dead Man's Steel