The Fallen Quotes

“The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.”
― Thomas E. Sniegoski, The Fallen and Leviathan

“You want to know about the place called Hell?" he asked the curious animal. "There is no Hell," he said. "Hell is in here." He touched the raw, pink skin of his chest with the tips of his fingers. "And it will forever brun inside me for what I have done.”
― Thomas E. Sniegoski, Aerie

“The Ten Commandments of the Fallen
1. Thou shalt not kill an innocent
2. Thou shalt not stray from the Fallen's righteous path
3. Though Shalt not bring prey back to Eden Manor
4. Thou shalt not kill in Eden Manor
5. Thou shalt not betray, injure, or kill a brother of the Fallen
6. Thou shalt kill only the Chosen
7. Thou shalt not put any other above the Fallen
8. Thou shalt not kill another brother's prey
9. Thou shalt only kill within the realms of one's desire
10. Thou shalt practice self-restraint”
― Tillie Cole, The Fallen: Genesis

“We never forget the fallen, but we move on.”
― Mori Calliope

“The Lowest Bid
by Stewart Stafford

The sceptre is cast to the shivering sea,
A drowned baptism of the pact of monarchy.
A blinding vision of the fallen from on high,
New roving dregs with a scavenger’s eye.

Yield up the light, coax out the dying flame,
Punishment for crimes revokes your name.
Is liberation founded upon phantom delusion?
It persists as the architect’s cold conclusion.

Endure degradation’s searing descent
To a brimstone pool of a crimson crescent—
Shadow throne invoked by seditious implication.
Collusion not coercion, mummified by mediation.

Trust not the Janus offer, the beatific start—
They can only embalm the chasms in the heart.

© 2026 Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford