Paul Krueger > Quotes

“Roses are the fast food of flowers.”
― Paul Krueger, My Best Friend's Exorcism / Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge [Exclusive Chaplet]

“I've found that the ones you lose have a way of coming back to you.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“When you're on the worst kind of job, audacity's the only thing that'll get you through it: being willing to do something so stupid, there's no way anyone could see it coming.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“To share a table with someone is to share everything.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“Our beautiful language has gifted us with sch a multitude of words,” Xiulan said. “What better way to glorify them than with their use?”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“Guns are great for killing stuff that follows the laws of biology. Do skinless demons that nosh on your life force sound like something you can classify with binomial nomenclature?”
― Paul Krueger, Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge

“The wise king is the one who knows he isn't.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“You can do anything if you love someone enough.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“Whiskey (from uisce beatha, “water of life”) was first attested in the 1400s in the monasteries of Ireland, where one scribe called it “drinkable evidence of a loving and beatific God.”
― Paul Krueger, Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge

“..... The easiest fight to lose is a fair one. You might think you're a hot-shit bartender, little Whelan, but I know what this girl can do. She's saved your ass before. I guarantee she won't hesitate to kick a dent in it this time, either. And she'll have help.”
― Paul Krueger, Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge

“Escape now, feelings later.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“The best way to keep a secret is to make sure no one knows you're keeping one.”
― Paul Krueger, Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge

“The grown-up who says they know what they’re doing is a grown-up who’s lying. She smiled, and that was when she knew she wasn’t a grown-up. Not yet..... Because she knew what to do.”
― Paul Krueger, Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge

“My firing instructor always said someone with good aim can kill. Someone with great aim doesn't have to.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“But healing is not a process enacted by sorcery alone. The patient must fight at least as hard as the physician, if not much harder.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“In such a fraught political climate, I think the danger of any unbalancing factor is multiplied tenfold.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“But forgiveness was a journey, not a choice.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“Even in matters of faith, you can always depend on the constants of supply and demand.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“When a person dies from a gunshot, you don't blame the bullet. You blame the shooter.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“Booze is universal, it brings people together, and a lot of times it results in the creation of more people. What could be more magical than something that does all that?”
― Paul Krueger, Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge

“This one talks even more than you,” Tala said to Jimuro. “That’s what I said.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“We all have such finite time, even when the spirits are kind.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“Long & Strong.”
― Paul Krueger, Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge

“It's so rare to meet a person who actually lives up to their reputation.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“But good shooting made a warrior; discipline, a soldier.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga