Michelle Bryan > Quotes

“...emotion isn't a weakness. When you cry, you’re showing the world your strength. When you love someone, you’re showing yourself your strength.”
― Michelle Bryan, Legends of the Tri-Gard Volumes I-III

“Yeah, well don't get used to it," I mutter back. "I ain't no damn Hooters waitress." I catch his grin out of the corner of my eye. “You? A Hooters girl? I don't think you have big enough—” “Choose your next words carefully, Whitman,” I cut him off mid-sentence, my eyes narrowed.  “They could mean the world of difference on who keeps you company in bed tonight. Me or the palm sisters.” “Feet.”
― Michelle Bryan, Strain of Defiance

“Coffee. Man's number one gift to the universe.”
― Michelle Bryan, Strain of Defiance

“They have our scent all right, and they’re advancing like sailors on a whorehouse.”
― Michelle Bryan, Strain of Resistance

“You can't hesitate when there’s a life on the line. They sure as hell won't. I was given this piece of advice years ago, and now I'm going to share it with you. Be brutal, be tough. War means fighting, and fighting means killing. Learn this, or you will not live to see another year.”
― Michelle Bryan, Strain of Resistance

“Don’t let anybody who hasn’t been in your shoes tell you how to tie the laces,”
― Michelle Bryan, Power of Fae : The Complete Series

“Jesus, you think that was once human?" Cal questions in disbelief. Luke kicks the arm that had fallen to the side earlier and points to the piece of human looking skin still attached to the otherwise gray flesh. The skin is tattered and stretched, the obvious remains of a blue ribbon tattoo with the name 'Marty' still clearly visible. "Unless 'Marty' stopped for a tat on his way from butt fuck nowhere in the universe, then yeah, I tend to agree with Bix.”
― Michelle Bryan, Strain of Resistance

“I never did get the looting part. I mean, what good was a bag full of jewelry in an alien invasion?”
― Michelle Bryan, Strain of Resistance

“Living on the edge appeals to me. Some understand where I'm coming from-most don't. They can't understand why I enjoy being out here so much. And I really can't give them an answer. They chalk it up to craziness. I hear the whispers, people questioning my mental stability behind my back. It doesn't bother me; I question it all the time. Maybe I am crazy. But I believe to survive in this fucking world now you have to be at least a little crazy. Hell, a whole lot crazy helps you cope even better.”
― Michelle Bryan, Strain of Resistance

“Is it true what they say about him, Orakel? Is he really magical and hundreds of years old?” Finn, who had been real quiet up ‘til now, speaks, and his question makes her cackle again. “Mayhap it is, boy. Mayhap it ain’t. I could say the little man over there has a boil on his arse the size of a toadie. That don’t make it so.” This”
― Michelle Bryan, Awaken

“The building is quiet. Too damn quiet. The kind of quiet that always precedes the bad guy's unexpected, shit-your-pants moment of arrival in the movies.”
― Michelle Bryan, Strain of Defiance

“on my pillow. I knew Helen would bitch about the light if she got up”
― Michelle Bryan, The Lost Link