Tobias Wade > Quotes

“Although it was only a single instrument, each note had the peculiar echoed quality of a thousand harmonics voiced together. There was a whisper behind the strongest note and a shout beneath the softest, and they sang of far off places in long forgotten times. There were no words, but the images of ancient pride, noble heritage, and castles in the sand were imagined from the progression. This was the song that would be played at the birth of a nation, full of hope and promise of better days ahead. This was the song of the end of days with all love and longing lost beyond recall or desire. Farris could see this song playing at her wedding, or her funeral, as a herald of joy and sorrow. She found tears in her eyes and heard herself laugh, and she couldn’t say why she was doing either. Her skin was tense and covered with goosebumps, and she shivered with pleasure.”
― Tobias Wade, The First Man: An Enlightened Journey

“It wasn’t Google Chrome, Firefox, Tor, Safari, or even the dreaded Internet Explorer”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“But the quickest way to a man's heart is also the quickest way to make him lose half his brain cells”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“What the fuck? You're trying to stop an important scientific mission, because you had a bad dream (‘dream’ was pronounced ‘dweam’)?”
― Tobias Wade, Alphabet Soup: Horror Stories for the Tormented Soul

“She was a witch who put me under her spell, a demon who had claimed my soul.”
― Tobias Wade, 54 Sleepless Nights: 50+ Monsters, Murders, Demons, and Ghosts. Short Horror Stories and Legends.

“I found the one who valued his greed over human dignity”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“The voice I heard on the edge of death is the same which inspired my ancestors to write their verse: a further puzzle piece in the enigma of creation”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“That’s why I’m done being quiet and submissive. If you allow yourself to be constrained by social norms, you’re never going to win a race against someone who isn’t similarly burdened”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“Jessica, the kind of girl who makes smart men do stupid things, asked me as we parked.”
― Tobias Wade, 52 Sleepless Nights

“Yet however trying they are, it's in these moments of deep sadness that I feel most like myself. I've hurt for so long that I've forgotten what it feels like to be happy. My pain has swallowed me; it has become me. I hurt, therefore I am”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“some cultures believe that a shooting, or fallen, star is a soul being released from purgatory−sent to heaven− finally given their eternal happiness”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“When Marla didn't want to talk about something she always made sure her mouth was otherwise occupied. And Marla wasn't much for talking”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“Once pain has passed, it no longer exists. Once life has passed, pain is no longer possible”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“I was too busy watching a derogatory cartoon on the television about a drunk scientist and an idiot child who got into all types of crazy situations”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“the human is offered a choice: they can get revenge on me, or they can accept their pain and continue their journey”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“How could I be absolved by killing an innocent”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“I was a coward, pure and simple. And it was my fault what happened next”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“There are some things you just have to ask even if you don’t want to know the answer”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“I saw the blood leaking out from Mom’s closed door after I left the bathroom. I had to stay with my grandmother for a week after that. There wasn’t any blood when I got home, and I haven’t seen Dad since. I still don’t know if the monster that night. When I told the story to some friends at school, they said Raleigha must have killed him. My friends were all terrified of monsters after that, but that’s just because they didn’t understand.”
― Tobias Wade, 52 Sleepless Nights

“I do not believe it is within my nature to torture anyone”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“Welcome to Hell. Would you like to: 1) Remain Human. You will be tortured by those who became Demons. 2) Become a Demon. You will torture those who remained Human. P.S. If there aren’t enough people to volunteer to remain Human, they will be chosen randomly”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“Bloodied, sickened, broken down, we tarry while we may. For though life has wearied us, from death there’s no escape. One prayer, one stand, one wild charge, before it is too late, For though dark and dreary thus, there’s nothing left to hate”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“To wait and to pray, that next time I will find the strength to make my own choices, not rely on God”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“One life is enough to be forgotten by Heaven. But one death is not enough to be forgiven by Hell”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“Time makes a wound fester and rot, magnifying the pain into brooding despair”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“she was the perfect version of what she was. In life, that's all anyone can aspire to be”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“Sympathy is wasted on the dead”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“I had nothing to live for, nothing to lose, nothing to come back to”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“It should’ve been me”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories

“He couldn’t do anything because he felt like shit. He felt like shit because he couldn’t do anything. And on and on, doubts feeding doubts. Hating her and loving her, and then hating himself for both”
― Tobias Wade, Brutal Bedtime Stories