Ginn Hale > Quotes

“To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.”
― Ginn Hale, Lord of the White Hell, Book 1

“I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.”
― Ginn Hale, Wicked Gentlemen

“Tell me." Edward had to raise his voice a little. "Do you live by the principle that what people don't know can't hurt them?"
"No," Harper replied. "What people don't know can't hurt me.”
― Ginn Hale, Wicked Gentlemen

“He couldn’t undo the past, nor could he know how he had already altered the future. But that didn’t matter. What he really cared about was captured in the warmth of their interlaced fingers. What mattered was the life the two of them made together now.”
― Ginn Hale, The Holy Road

“The wisdom of age defeats the strength of youth.”
― Ginn Hale, Lord of the White Hell, Book 2

“More sheltering is rarely an antidote for too much in the first place.”
― Ginn Hale, Lord of the White Hell, Book 1

“It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.”
― Ginn Hale, Wicked Gentlemen

“It didn’t matter who he might have been. That was not who he was now. He created himself each day and slowly built his own history.”
― Ginn Hale, Servants of the Crossed Arrows

“We can tell you many things, but none are certain and many are lies.”
― Ginn Hale, The Rifter Book Two: The Holy Road

“No matter how bad he felt, there was nothing to be done about it. He had made hard and even cruel choices, but in the end they were the ones he knew were right. There was no use in regretting them.”
― Ginn Hale, Witches' Blood

“Your flesh is my earth. Your blood is my river. Your breath is my sky. Your body is my world.”
― Ginn Hale, Broken Fortress

“Now that I have this piglet talisman... who knows what I might find the poor judgment to do?”
― Ginn Hale, Lord of the White Hell, Book 2

“The promise of destroying an enemy so utterly is hard to resist.”
― Ginn Hale, The Silent City

“He’d seen what became of men who sacrificed their hearts’ desires for security.”
― Ginn Hale, Lord of the White Hell, Book 2

“In Yuan" Alizadeh whispered to Kiram, "they have a word for a man who fights a darkness he cannot defeat."

"What is it?" Kiram asked.

"A fool," Alizadeh replied.”
― Ginn Hale, Lord of the White Hell, Book 1

“The Pepper Sisters," Falk told him, "I think you just got an eyeful of the new ad campaign for their dairy."

"Were those the owners or the producers?" Jason asked.

"Both. It's an employee-owned co-op. Chemical-free too now that Pickle's quit smoking.”
― Ginn Hale, Irregulars

“So long as you're living, never give up.”
― Ginn Hale, His Holy Bones

“No." Belimai reached out and touched Harper's shoulder. "I only said it to hurt you. I wanted to make you feel as bad as I did." Belimai smiled. "It's my own little way of sharing what I have with you. Aren't you lucky?”
― Ginn Hale, Wicked Gentlemen

“I refuse to be criticized by a man who isn't even wearing pants.”
― Ginn Hale, Lord of the White Hell, Book 2

“Petty fortune telling was the field of the wishful. Witches dealt in blood and bones.”
― Ginn Hale , The Rifter Book One: The Shattered Gates

“Don't waste your prayers on the past, when the future is where you're going.”
― Ginn Hale, Hell Cop

“If only he had figured this trick out sooner. It would have saved him so much pain. If only he hadn’t been so terrified of this dead darkness. But it was nothing. Not pain, not fear. Nothing. This, absence and silence, seemed to stretch out forever and through all time. It devoured his future and past, engulfed his present, and absolved all with an endless, soothing darkness.”
― Ginn Hale, Black Blades

“He traced the slight rise and fall of the earth as if he were stroking the skeletal ribs of a hungry dog. He knew that this was where his sense of reality came from. If he were honest with himself, that was just as absurd as any of Laurie’s beliefs. Still, he felt it so keenly and so very personally that he could neither question this communion nor share it with anyone else. This was his private faith.”
― Ginn Hale, The Shattered Gates

“For your pleasure I’m creating a collection of erotic drawings so poorly rendered that I feel certain they will completely shake your belief in my understanding of human anatomy.”
― Ginn Hale

“I know,” Kahlil said. “You’re probably the only man who would compare me to a fungus and mean it as a compliment.”
― Ginn Hale, Broken Fortress

“He may say he is different. He may want to be different. He may even go so far as to become your lover. But he'll always feel guilty and dirty. He'll be ashamed to be seen with you and try to blame you for his own desires. He'll claim you seduced him or that you are somehow irresistible because you're Haldiim. If the two of you are discovered together, he'll press charges to save himself. That's how Cadeleonian men are.”
― Ginn Hale, Lord of the White Hell, Book 1

“Javier glanced back to Elezar. “What you asked earlier, about it being worth all the trouble?” “Yes?” Elezar felt his pulse pick up. “It’s worth it. I can’t even tell you how relieving it is when you realize that you don’t have to lie to yourself or anyone else. You can hold your head high and be exactly who you are.”
― Ginn Hale, Champion of the Scarlet Wolf, Book Two

“His life was his again. It was like inheriting a burning house.”
― Ginn Hale, Black Blades

“Them papers are clean as a unicorn's snatch!”
― Ginn Hale, Irregulars

“You died,” Ji said gently. “But now he’s brought you back. And he needs you more than you can know—”
― Ginn Hale, Broken Fortress