Aifer > Aifer's Quotes

“She didn't drink wine, and even if she did, I didn't know if red or white was appropriate for telling a woman that you want to kill her former lover. Do they have greeting cards for that sort of thing?”
― Elliott James, Charming

“I live like a Nazi war criminal or a serial killer... like I have something to be ashamed of.”
― Elliott James, Charming

“A Master without a submissive is a guy. Just a guy. He needs someone who wishes to submit to him, in order to become a Master.”
― Jason Luke, Interview with a Master

“It wasn’t about physical domination for me. It still isn’t. It’s about that emotional transfer of power: the command and control. That’s what turns me on, Leticia. That’s what I find so addictive about being a Master. I love the power, given to me by the submissive.”
― Jason Luke, Interview with a Master

“Every woman who is aroused by submission is also aroused by an alpha male who can tame her. These women aren’t looking for a husband in the bedroom who will make them feel safe and loved. They already have that in their relationship. These women are looking for a man who is strong enough to conquer them. That way the woman can still feel vibrant and independent… but also feel comfortable submitting to their lover. That’s the turn-on for women. They don’t want to be submissives… they want to feel like they can’t resist submitting.”
― Jason Luke, Interview with a Master

“Through grinding, nothing is impossible. - Weed”
― Heesung Nam (남희성), 달빛 조각사 1

“Security is not a license for people in authority to hide tactics they would never openly admit to using.”
― John G. Hemry

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
― Zig Ziglar

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

“The main difference between a fighter pilot and God is that God doesn't think he was a fighter pilot.”
― Evan C. Currie, Odyssey One

“The difference between courage and stupidity is measured by success and survival.”
― Evan C. Currie, The Heart of Matter

“Communism worked great, up to maybe four dozen people. Libertarianism was a bit better and could handle thousands before it started to fall apart. Capitalism worked best on scale, but it too began to implode once you moved close to the billion mark or so and began to factor in multiple local governments. Socialism always sucked and tended to work like a glacier moving uphill, but it worked at pretty much every scale in the same way. It was reliable, even if you could only rely on it to piss you off and barely get anything done.”
― Evan C. Currie, By Other Means

“The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance.”
― Evan C. Currie, Heirs of Empire

“If she survived, she’d learn. One of the silver linings of battle, he supposed. Learning time was very much compressed. Much smaller graduating classes, though.”
― Evan C. Currie, Homeworld

“Doors were both the bane and the blessing of existence. When they worked the way you wanted, when you wanted, you could ask no more of life. Most of the time, however, the evil blasted things were clearly possessed by the devil and intent on nothing but murdering you and your compatriots by stubbornly refusing to open, or close, or whatever it was you needed them to do.”
― Evan C. Currie, King of Thieves

“Has it ever occured to you, Master Ninefingers, that a sword is different from other weapons? Axes and maces and so forth are lethal enough, but they hang on the belt like dumb brutes. But a sword...a sword has a voice.
Sheathed it has little to say, to be sure, but you need only put your hand on the hilt and it begins to whisper in your enemy's ear. A gentle word. A word of caution. Do you hear it?
Now, compare it to the sword half drawn. It speaks louder, does it not? It hisses a dire threat. It makes a deadly promise. Do you hear it?
Now compare it to the sword full drawn. It shouts now, does it not? It screams defiance! It bellows a challenge! Do you hear it?”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself