Crokus Quotes & Sayings

I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook. — Roger Goodell

There had been a local with them, to witness the veracity of the night's work. In the aftermath, as he stood in the doorway and stared down at the three corpses, he'd lifted his head and met Crokus's eyes. Whatever he saw in them had drained the blood from the man's face.
By morning Crokus had acquired a new name. Cutter.
At first he had rejected it. The local had misread all that had been revealed behind the Daru's eyes that night. Nothing fierce. The barrier of shock, fast crumbling to self-condemnation. Murdering killers was still murder, the act like the closing of shackles between them all, joining a line of infinite length, one killer to the next, a procession from which there was no escape. — Steven Erikson

None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom ... '
Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery. — Steven Erikson

I had been as sober as the day of a court-ordered drug test — Katie McGarry

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles. — Bruce Boxleitner

I've just had a really evil idea."
"My favourite kind — Joss Stirling

The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process. — Bruce Perens

The heart may not always be practical, but it is always right. — Debasish Mridha

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. — Roger Clemens

He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum. — Laini Taylor

Fiddler turned in his seat and met his corporal's dark eyes. Trouble? Maybe. The exchange was silent, a product of years fighting side by side. Crokus — Steven Erikson

He groaned in mounting desire. "You're a dangerous woman, Calinda Braxton," he murmured hoarsely. "So are you, Lynx Cardone," she replied in a strained voice as she pushed away from him, fighting to regain control of herself. He caught her face between his hands, drilling his smoldering gaze into her matching one. "I want you, Cal," he stated simply.

-Lynx & Calinda — Janelle Taylor

We want to believe that there were better men once. That makes us think it could be that way again. But people don't change. They are corrupt now.They were corrupt then. — Brandon Sanderson

Bitch has more issues than Vogue. — L. H. Cosway

Precipitous creature,' Kruppe muttered, reaching for the mug of wine the man had left behind. 'Ah, look at this,' he said, frowning up at Crokus, 'nigh two-thirds full. A potential waste!' Kruppe drank it down in one swift gulp, then sighed. 'Said potential averted, Dessembrae be praised. — Steven Erikson

I tell people my only successful long-term relationship was with Jim Packard. He was my rock. I didn't realize how codependent I was. — Michael Feldman

I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons. — Tommy Shaw

As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr's hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speak - a whispering that enables us into its world ... a masterfully sutured journey, painfully useful. Sarah - Of Fragments and Lines is a book I know I will return to. And urge it on my friends who have lives too and write in them. — Eileen Myles

Crokus jumped at a faint plopping sound from the stairwell. He laid his hands on his knives, tensing. — Steven Erikson