Sword And Sorcery Quotes

“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.
He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”
― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin

“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.”
Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?”
“You whacked me on the head with a ball!”
“You deserved it.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?”
Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again.
I pictured smacking him in the face.”
― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin

“I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker jacket he wore, hugging his lean shoulders. It was the way he stood. The confident way he waited in the cafeteria line to get a slice of pizza. He didn’t saunter. He didn’t amble. He stood at the center, and let the other people buzz around him. His stance was straight and sure.”
― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin

“Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.”
― Melodie Campbell, Rowena Through the Wall

“Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air.”
― Priya Ardis

“Make no mistake, little human. You are under my protection now, and I protect what is mine.”
― Danielle Monsch, Stone Guardian

“Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale.”
― Priya Ardis, My Boyfriend Merlin

“I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.”
― Sully Tarnish, The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Humorous Fantasy Adventure

“Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.”
― Priya Ardis

“You are sweet to be so concerned over my love life, but I’ve decided only to date guys who have bigger swords than me.”
― Danielle Monsch, Stone Guardian

“This woman was consuming him, bit by bit. She was becoming the reason and the reward of his existence, and if he did not shield himself, everything he did not have to give would belong to her.”
― Danielle Monsch, Stone Guardian

“I don’t do magic. I turn your attention back to Friday night and the big-ass sword I was carrying. My job is to run and swing.”
― Danielle Monsch, Stone Guardian

“Well, here were the ugly facts. She had no mad-ninja-skillz to rely on and her family didn’t know where she was. She didn’t know where she was. The only way she was leaving was if this creature allowed it.”
― Danielle Monsch, Stone Guardian

“When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods.”
― S.M. White, The Witch's Price

“How many did she kill?”

“Dozens, my Lord, until her sword was dull with the blood of her enemies.”

Reign stroked the edge of the dagger with his forefinger until a drop of blood was drawn. The blood absorbed into the blade. “Only that? I will see her bathed in blood before me.”
― Danielle Monsch, Stone Guardian

“Valley of the Damned (The 'Halla, Vol. # 1)

No force can oppose Love in Earth or Heaven above, No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love.

—Valkyrie Kari, Chapter Sixteen”
― douglas laurent

“I once commented that in the sword-and-sorcery story, the seamy underside is always rape; that where men seek adventure, one of the things they seem to seek is women to be distributed as prizes or objects.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Sword and Sorceress

“While his brain lay slowly dying, Bevan felt his body come back to life.”
― Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, The Deadwalk

“The further you are away from the battleground, the more muffled the cries, the less you understand. In truth, the only men to see the end of war are those who die on the battlefield”
― Shauna Richmond, Shattered Steel

“And those monsters saw not a young man with a sword but a scarred and screaming horror with the rising red doom of the sun at his back and a hellishly shrieking, flashing, living sword in his hands.”
― Stephen R. Babb, Skallagrim – In The Vales Of Pagarna

“It only seems complicated because it is strange,' Corum said. 'Your world would doubtless seem incomprehensible to me of I were suddenly flung into it.”
― Michael Moorcock, Stormbringer

“They have fought on the frontlines for their people and suffered the consequences. They have lost those that are dear to them and watched lifelong friends take their last breaths in their arms, my sons, Ethelred, will come home from war flying the house banners or they will be wrapped in them, either way, they will come home.”
― Shauna Richmond, Shattered Steel

“You cannot punish her, she will take the punishment and laugh in your face, then tear the place down afterwards.”
― Shauna Richmond, Shattered Steel

“Gath of Baal stood on a pile of dead bodies working his axe. The surviving nomads surrounded him. Splattered with blood, they mindlessly charged up the bodies of the fallen into the Barbarian’s slashing axe. Bodies and pieces of bodies tumbled in the air, tossed on fountains of blood, and still they charged. Gath was knee-deep in carnage, slipping on bloody chests and heads. Dying men clung to his legs, bit them, struggled with the last of their strength to pull him down into their mire of gore.”
― James Silke, Prisoner of the Horned Helmet

“My, I could love ya 'til the sun rises, lassie. But I dinnae think it'd ever be enough.”
― Kyrstie Nickles, Fire on Fire

“You told you were a hero! That you were discharged, ‘Above Honorable’! Turns out you were simply defeated by a mutant penis to the face!”
― Dexter Herron, Shard's Thugs

“You told me you were a hero! That you were discharged, ‘Above Honorable’! Turns out you were simply defeated by a mutant penis to the face!”
― Dexter Herron, Shard's Thugs