Orlando A. Sanchez > Quotes

“The human mind is easily deceived, especially from within.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Divine Intervention

“You can always judge a man by the loyalty of his friends and the quality of his enemies.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Tombyards & Butterflies

“Those who stand beside you when things go well are friends and comrades. Those who stand by your side when it’s all gone to shite, are your family.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Montague & Strong Collection, Books 4-6

“if you pay attention,” Ezra said, right before I stepped into the circle, “you’ll discover that every moment is a teaching moment.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Reaping Wind

“In a very real sense, we are all broken in some way. Some of us have been broken by life, by circumstances, or other people. What matters isn’t that we are broken, but what we do after the brokenness has happened. Do we let those situations define us, or do we use the philosophy of kinstugi and repair the cracks and scars in our lives with precious things like love, laughter, and joy?”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Broken Magic

“Besides, what’s the worst that can happen? The circles won’t kill you. You may suffer excruciating agony and wish death many times over, but they won’t kill you.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Requiem

“Did you feel that?” “Is it a disturbance in the energy that connects us all?” I asked. “You know a disturbance in the—” “Don’t,” he said, “or I swear I will hit you hard enough to cause catastrophic damage.”
― Orlando Sanchez, Tombyards & Butterflies

“Well, well, look who it is. The team responsible for renovating the city. One building at a time.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Hell Hath No Fury

“No need to say it, Monty. Besides in the words of the great Freddy Mercury, who wants to live forever?”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Tombyards & Butterflies

“All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye. -Margaret Atwood”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Dragons & Demigods

“Simon, I applaud your confidence, misguided as it may be, but that is an ogre. I can’t use all of my magic.” “Can it die?” I asked. “Well, of course it can die—” “Then we need to stop it. What, are you scared?” He nodded. “Shitless, because my brain operates with common sense, unlike yours.”
― Orlando Sanchez, Tombyards & Butterflies

“I've seen her in action," I said, rubbing a jaw. "One does not piss off Karma. She is the most patient bitch I know. I mean that in the most flattering and scary sense possible.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Dark Glass

“and”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Tombyards & Butterflies

“I hate them.” “No,” he said, glancing off to the side for a brief second. “You must not let hate take root in your heart. Tell me why.” I recalled the lesson. He had been teaching me this lesson for as long as I knew him, which was most of my life. “Hate festers and grows.” “What else?” “It makes one easy to control and manipulate, robbing clarity of thought,” I said, remembering the answers. “Hate destroys reason.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Fated Fury

“I returned the glare, pushing it up to three, with an extra dose of ‘Eastwood squint’ to give it the proper menace. “What’s wrong with your eyes?” Ken asked. “Why are you squinting—at night?”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Reaping Wind

“Wolverine is the patron saint of badassery,” I said, while nodding solemnly. “As such, Saint Wolverine can never be mocked—ever.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Tombyards & Butterflies

“Only those who do nothing make no mistakes.” We”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Bullets & Blades

“There is nothing wrong with feeling fear. Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Shieldbearer

“Very often you will have to make the best of the choices you are given,” Yat said. “Many times those choices will, as you say, suck.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Divine Intervention

“Order and Chaos are forces of reality.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Divine Intervention

“let the peons we pee upon deal with those minor threats”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Bullets & Blades

“Sounds like an impending catastrophe,” Monty answered and made his way to the kitchen. “Is there another kind?” I asked, holstering Grim Whisper and pulling out my phone. “No,” he said. “I’d better make some tea.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Full Moon Howl

“Sprawly the Sprawlificent.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Lost Runes

“to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but one,”—Monty pointed at the brightest orb—“the last one, is the warrior, and he will bring the others back.” With another wave of his hand, the orbs vanished. “Heraclitus,”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Corpse Road

“People with power often choose to destroy what they can’t control,”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, The Gatekeeper Collection, Books 1-3

“We will be civil until it’s time to be rude.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Entropy

“Don’t know if this is a roundtrip.” “I hear you. If not, I’ll meet you on the other side. Remember it’s all tombyards and butterflies.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Tombyards & Butterflies

“Or we’re walking into a trap.” “I always think everything could be a trap,” he said, “which is why I’m still alive.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, The Gatekeeper Collection, Books 1-3

“Tempus edax rerum,” Monty said. “Time is the devourer of all things.” “Those words,” I said as the realization hit me.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Corpse Road

“They say profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcibly.”
― Orlando A. Sanchez, Broken Magic