Christian Baines > Quotes

“Just ink,’ he says. 'Just ink.’ Probably the most dangerous substance on this here earth. There’ve been wars started by 'just ink.”
― Christian Baines, Skin

“I was history’s unwilling spectator.”
― Christian Baines, The Orchard of Flesh

“Even Blood Shades are unsure just where these come from. In less enlightened times, they were thought to be the voices of the devil, in his many forms. Or at least a conspiracy of powerful demons. A cacophany of screams, moans, and laughs, the laughter of a Blood Shade, unfiltered by mortal form or the manners of human society. A concerto of horrors for my target’s eyes and ears alone.”
― Christian Baines, The Beast Without

“Daddy issues, when I could stir them, were delicious.”
― Christian Baines, The Orchard of Flesh

“If fortune had forsaken the bold, I hoped it would at least pity the stupid.”
― Christian Baines, The Orchard of Flesh

“I’m a civilized man, but I am also a predator.”
― Christian Baines, The Orchard of Flesh

“Tell me what you want and I’ll decide how much pain you’ll be in when I don’t give it to you.”
― Christian Baines, The Orchard of Flesh

“I struggled not to flinch as it winked at me.”
― Christian Baines, The Orchard of Flesh

“This was Matthias, I presumed, though had I encountered him at random in a nightclub, he would have been lunch. Very. Tasty. Lunch.”
― Christian Baines, The Orchard of Flesh

“We’re all entitled to reinvent ourselves from time to time, aren’t we?”
― Christian Baines, The Orchard of Flesh