58 Quotes by Lisa Shearin

It’s been my experience that mankind – and I use that to encompass all the races – is seldom satisfied with what they have. Most people’s striving is harmless, beneficial even. But there are those who strive for subjugation, having control over others’ lives, lives held in the palm of their hand.

It was an octopus with one eye. A Cyclops octopus. I’d call it a cyclopoctopus until a better name came along.

Grandma said that a skillet’s good for three things: frying chicken, baking corn bread, and going upside an obstinate man’s head.

However, a very wise man of my acquaintance once said: ‘I just had this dumped on me. Brilliance takes time.

To find the Scythe of Nen, I first had to find possibly the most elusive quarry I’d ever had to locate in my entire seeking career: a virgin on an island full of college students.

Report any sightings as they happen.” “Will a girly scream work?” Rolf asked. “It’s always worked for you in the past,” a huge, blond-bearded commando shouted good-naturedly. “Why change now?

Bodyguard work came easily to hobgoblins. When you’re huge, furry, fanged, and yellow-eyed, you don’t need much else as a deterrent.

You know it’s going to be a bad day when you can’t get privacy inside your own head.

It’d been said that he could rob a man blind and have that same man thank him for his good work.