Jordan Rivet > Quotes

“In truth, she was a mix of her experiences and relationships, an amalgam of her skills, failures, and triumphs. Like the disparate features making up a face, the whole was more complete and true than any one trait.”
― Jordan Rivet, A Traitor at the Stone Court

“You got a name?” she asked. “Several.” “What does Tiber call you?” “Smarmy bastard, most of the time.”
― Jordan Rivet, A Traitor at the Stone Court

“Find something you love more than the power, and hold onto it with everything you have.”
― Jordan Rivet, Night of Flame

“Beware of the shadow as well as the fire.”
― Jordan Rivet, Duel of Fire

“team of old-time, swashbuckling warriors.”
― Jordan Rivet, King of Mist

“Dara doesn’t respond well to commands,” Vine said. “It’s a rather endearing quality, I find.”
― Jordan Rivet, Dance of Steel

“Live streams cropped up to follow the progress of the comet, which was dubbed Brandon—a nickname that annoyed Joanna to no end.”
― Jordan Rivet, Wake Me After the Apocalypse

“A twenty-six-year-old man announced he was going to put himself to sleep until his fifteen-year-old neighbor turned twenty-two so he could date her without it being creepy. Naturally, most people thought it was pretty creepy anyway, including the girl, who ended up marrying her college sweetheart on her twentieth birthday.”
― Jordan Rivet, Wake Me After the Apocalypse

“Sure enough, a door opened to a narrow stairwell exactly where he’d expected it. A patch of light flooded from above like a stairway to heaven. He half expected angels to sing. Or at least Led Zeppelin.”
― Jordan Rivet, Follow Me to Armageddon

“Time had been gentler on the surface of the earth than the acts of man.”
― Jordan Rivet, Wake Me After the Apocalypse

“Her classmates were evenly split between those obliterating their sorrows in carnal pleasures and those wanting to experience all the natural wonders of Mother Earth in her sunset days. Most had embarked on a sordid campaign of sex, drugs, and camping trips. That was Seattle for you.”
― Jordan Rivet, Wake Me After the Apocalypse

“Joanna twisted in her seat to look back. Blake was staring out the van window, muscular arms folded over his chest, tears streaming steadily down his face.”
― Jordan Rivet, Wake Me After the Apocalypse

“Silence!”
― Jordan Rivet, Wake Me After the Apocalypse

“Keep it simple. All you need is rope and the right kind of knot.” She paused in the midst of examining a heavy nylon coil. “And maybe you should stop talking to yourself.”
― Jordan Rivet, Wake Me After the Apocalypse

“What had she really offered the team? Sure, she was an optimist. She prided herself on always moving forward. But even that failed her now, when her lack of foresight had consequences.”
― Jordan Rivet, Wake Me After the Apocalypse

“This might not be a zombie apocalypse, with hordes of the undead swarming around the survivors, but healthy human beings with everything to lose were bad enough.”
― Jordan Rivet, Meet Me at World's End

“Making the definition of violence something only you control. You should call things what they are. If I truly hurt someone, then punish me for it. But if all I’ve done is challenge your authority, calling it violence is a betrayal of everyone who has ever suffered real violence.”
― Jordan Rivet, Rescue Me from Paradise

“She had to keep going, keep working. Her father had taught her that. In a crisis, the worst thing was to be idle.”
― Jordan Rivet, Seabound

“didn’t”
― Jordan Rivet, An Imposter with a Crown

“Violence is our past. Violence destroyed the world. We will reject all forms of violence and usher in a new future. We will make a paradise together.”
― Jordan Rivet, Rescue Me from Paradise

“Being a ghost would be pretty pointless if there were no people left to haunt.”
― Jordan Rivet, Wake Me After the Apocalypse