Jeff Mach Quotes

And lo, at the moment when she needed it most, she found the force within her. She didn't find it in time to avoid having her head bitten off, but she sure did die enlightened.

The farther removed you are from people actually shooting at you, the more you forget that cannons can do something to you other than fire salutes.

Stories. They only belong to the people if the people demand to speak.

May you reign supreme but never unchallenged.

There is a word for someone whose existence threatens your sanity, life, happiness, and future: human. And there is a word for someone whose existence is the hope for your sanity, life, happiness, and future: human.

Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies. True friends help you move the bodies of those who turned out not to have been friends to begin with.

And sadly, fairytale kingdoms work poorly. It's not just that they're fairytales and thus not terribly real; we've seen stranger and more mythical attempts at leadership in our time. The problem is that Fairytales attract Good Faeries, and thus Bad Faeries; Evil Queens; Huntsmen, and, of course, The Grand Vizier. And all of those tend to lead to ruination.

This is a lesson in creation: The first blood of blood magic is always your own.

Give me the ridiculous, because it's a gateway to the sublime.

How often must you be betrayed before you see that others are taking your kindness for weakness, your silence for an inability to speak?

I have a theory: A long time ago, someone cursed the trees with a touch of ambition.

The Chosen One is often told that failure is not an option. The Dark Lord knows that failure, like hurt and harm, is one not simply an option, but one of many companions. True power seldom comes without risk. Sufficient risk eventually results in harm. If you think you can trap a thousand demons and never have a single one break through your defenses and wreak havoc on your mind for a while - then you've likely never summoned any demons at all.

The road to powerful magical items is paved with good intentions and hideous deathtraps.

Orcs live in caves. Goblins live in shadows. It's the pain of distance versus the pain of proximity.

We've actually made the world into this very ugly video game, and it's not a sustainable model.

There's not a lot in this world as motivational as a firm belief in an unbending universal morality which just happens to place you on the side of the angels.

When I started out, all I knew was that I was not going to stay where I'd been. I was going to change. I was going to make my part of the world into something that I wanted–not wait, hope, or beg for the world to start to want me.