Rob J. Hayes > Quotes

“Ever killed anyone with a spoon?" she asked him.
"Uhhh..."
"Me neither, but I'm thinking of trying.”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Heresy Within

“It takes a lifetime of evil to be a villain, and only one moment of good to be a hero.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Never Die

“Good orders should always be questioned,” Stillwater said. “Bad orders should always be ignored.”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Fifth Empire of Man

“Power ain’t what ya reckon it’ll be. Don’t mean ya get ta do what ya want all the time; means ya gotta do what every other fucker wants. Much better bein’ the knife in the darkness than waitin’ fer it ta come for you.”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Fifth Empire of Man

“I’m many things, Deun, but I ain’t a liar,” Drake lied.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Where Loyalties Lie

“Jezzet there isn't a man in this room who hasn't spent at least some time staring at you and you're without doubt the most graceful person I've ever seen. I'm sure you can find some way to distract them. Failing that just start ... you know ... killing people."
"Killing people?" [...]
"Yes. with a spoon if you like.”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Heresy Within

“Honour can be lost a dozen times, and regained. Life can only be lost once, and never regained.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Never Die

“Nothing made a weak man feel strong like someone weaker to beat upon.”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Heresy Within

“For you cannot find yourself, if you do not first lose your way.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Never Die

“Well, you will never again be who you are right now. Change is as inevitable as time. So, you might as well get comfortable with who you're going to be and stop mourning who you were.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Pawn's Gambit

“Beeeeeeeeeer" slurred the drunk from the floor; stirring to life at the sound of alcohol.”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Color of Vengeance

“First one turned up at my family's ranch jus' days aft' I buried my parents. Arbiter Colm he called himself.” Betrim fixed Green with a cold stare. “Ya never forget ya first time. He was there ta look about my parent's death. Seems he thought they died of unnatural circumstances.”
“Did they?” Green asked.
“Well seeing as how I stabbed 'em both myself. Aye.”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Heresy Within

“You do this a lot, don't you?” The whore mistress smiled and lowered her voice to a whisper. “I did not come here all the way from my desert to be a whore. There is money in what we women have between our legs, but there is more money in using it to kill men.” After”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Heresy Within

“I snorted. "What a load of slug shit!”
― Rob J. Hayes, Along the Razor's Edge

“If you can retain enough pride to do the right thing, even in the face of scorn and ridicule, you can inspire that same pride in others.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Demon

“There were monsters in the world, Cho knew that well enough, but none were nearly so monstrous as man.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Never Die

“[...]but Lady Fairweather opposed the decision. Shortly afterwards she suffered from a sudden and unexpected case of being stabbed to death. She did not recover.”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Color of Vengeance

“An inch lower and it would have taken of his nipple, not that he could see any reason for a man to keep his nipples. Women's nipples, now they were alright, attached to the breast as they were made them real nice to look at and even better to play with.”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Color of Vengeance

“Sometimes peace is no more than oppression in disguise.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Never Die

“Anyone could have done his job, but those of little consequence often mistake convenience for importance.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Along the Razor's Edge

“We can never adequately prepare our children for what the world will throw at them. Their lives deviate from ours in unfathomable ways and in the end, all we can do is hope that the strength we have nurtured within them is greater than the weaknesses we have inflicted upon them.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Sins of the Mother

“Some victories were worth any cost; others were not worth any cost.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Pawn's Gambit

“Sometimes the few need to stand against the many, so all can see what is right," Zhihao said, then coughed into his hand. "So the monks used to say. I think it was written on a wall somewhere.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Never Die

“Pride is like staring into a fire at night. It's comforting in the dark, but it blinds you to everything but the flames.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Sins of the Mother

“See, ya no better than us.” “Never claimed to be. I’m just better spoken.” “Words?”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Heresy Within

“It's alright to be scared. Fear doesn't make you weak, it makes you human.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Spirits of Vengeance

“It never stops hurting. But that's how you know they meant something. The pain is a reminder of the good times, not the bad.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Spirits of Vengeance

“One can either let their losses define them, or define those losses by what is left to them.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Never Die

“When people expect you to do the unexpected, surprise them and do what they expect.”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Price of Faith

“Never had she met a more opinionated lot than those with enough money to buy the opinions of others.”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Heresy Within