Robert J. Crane Quotes

We go through life in our little boxes until we find ourselves in the last one, buried in the ground.

— Robert J. Crane

You stand at the edge of the rest of your life. The decisions you make now affect everything from here on. Gone are the times when simple and inconsequential matters governed your life. It is now the time for you to choose who you want to be, what you want to stand for, and what you want your life to reflect.

— Robert J. Crane

“I've lived my entire life without the approval of any of these people. I suspect I can live the rest of it the same.”

— Robert J. Crane

“They had us surrounded, and they were about to kill us when M-Squad showed up and saved our bacon, our sausage, and every other fine pork product we possess.”

— Robert J. Crane

“It's an internet meme," I said, matter-of-factly. "I'd tell you to Google it, but you've only got about five minutes to live and you're going to spend every one of those fighting for your life.”

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“Yeah, well, if wishes were horses I wouldn't need a ride home.”

— Robert J. Crane

I ever get out of here," I said over the noise of my enemy hitting the far wall with shattering force, "I will personally beat Clyde Clary to death with nothing but an old shoe.

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“Lost his mind, he has, Wolfe said. "Keen observation, Yoda," I said.”

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I've only met Reed twice," I said. Kind of sad, but that made him my oldest friend. "And I have no idea who this new guy is. Just for the record, I'm calling him 'Full Metal Jackass' because he's a sucker-punching douchebag, and I hop you'll join me in that by putting it on his official file or threat designator or whatever you use to keep track of metas that cross you."
"Duly noted. We have concerns." She folded her hands again.
"So do I," I agreed. "Most of them involve your fashion sense, with a few left to spare for the armor-clad whackjob that b**** slapped me around a parking lot this morning.

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“A man could have everything he wanted and be truly happy, but if you take away only the smallest thing, he becomes angry, resentful, and his happiness rots like a deshfruit left in the midday sun.”

— Robert J. Crane

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and I'll put a whole magazine of bullets in your skull.”

— Robert J. Crane

“Reed laughed, followed by Scott, and then Zack. Kat finally let out a little guffaw of her own, and I started to join them but stopped. I was here, in my little oasis, hostile people all around, but my friends closest, surrounding me.”

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“It was easier to be a leader when you weren't surrounded by total idiots.”

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“I sensed them creeping around in the living room as my body shot to instant wakefulness. It probably sounds weird, but I could hear them breathing”

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Because a man can only live with despair for so long before hope resurges.

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“I'm running a war, not a tea party, okay? I have to worry about what happens if murderous lunatics with insane powers escape into the outside world. Feelings and empathy don't get a lot of attention when I'm juggling concerns like that.”

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“My head felt like it was about to explode. My mind was so jumbled I couldn't control it; leaping in every direction, thoughts I could not have conceived of just a few minutes earlier were dashing through my head so quickly I couldn't even track them all.”

— Robert J. Crane

“The people ... " Winter whispered. "Are going to die," the man said, watching coldly. "It's a shame; I didn't mean for it to get quite that out of control. I let my anger get away from me. I had intended to scorch the ground around us, leave you in the middle of a smoking crater, but when people interfere with me, when they try to shake me down, take what's mine, it makes me ... so angry." Winter watched the scorched ground as the black smoke started to rise. The man shook him, diverting Winter's attention back to him. "Listen to me.”

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“If you seek to have the minutes pass faster, then what you seek is death, unintending as you may be. Minutes are all we have. They were”

— Robert J. Crane

“So few people get to truly steer their course the way you have the chance to now. And the question before you is-will you strive to be normal and live an ordinary life? Or will you do what no one else can do-and be more?”

— Robert J. Crane

The mark of a man is his willingness to do things that he must do but doesn't wish to.

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“You are faster than your fears. You need not outrun them when you can outfight them, conquer them, make them yours”

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Nothing is so rare as a man who gets everything he wants in life,

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“Hear them breathing and an unfamiliar scent filled the air, something brisk and fresh, that brought with it a chill that crept into my room. They did not speak. I rolled off my bed, making much”

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“Unbridled truth often gets sacrificed on the altar of the greater good.”

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“Bit my lip and wrenched myself to my feet. "I sense my presence is no longer needed here. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go find a quiet place to hide until the atomic apocalypse is over." I didn't exactly storm out, but I did break the door behind me. Because of my super-strength, not because I was in a snit. Well ... maybe a little bit of both.”

— Robert J. Crane

“Please don't be offended, oh murderous angel.”

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“Dr Isabella Perugini stopped on the bank opposite us, her dark hair pulled back in a ponytail, her white lab coat falling below her knees. She slid off her high heeled shoes and began to pick her way across the stream, trying to balance on the rocks jutting out of the water. Her dark complexion was more flushed than usual, her eyes narrowed at me. "You again?" She said it as she executed a hop from one rock to another. "I thought I sorted you out!”

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“There's nothing wrong with wanting, so long as you work for it and don't put your desires before everything else-including other people.”

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Glanced back behind me but heard nothing save for a grunt that was repeated from several different sources at once.

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“A compliment withheld is like meat stored away for later; it sours before you get any use out of it,”

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“THE GIRL IN THE BOX BOOK ONE Robert J. Crane”

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“Because the things you do for blood-for family-well, I think they cause most of us more problems than can be fairly called our share. And the things you do for the people you call family who aren't blood ... some of them are even worse.”

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A wise person learns from the mistakes of others, a normal person learns from their own, and a fool learns nothing, ever.

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“Nothing bruise but my massive arse and my bigger ego." He blinked. "Who cast the spell on me? I can see now."
"It was me," Vaste said from behind him. "I was afraid you'd fall into me, and frankly I'm not sure I could support your 'massive ego' since I'm too busy carrying your arse.”

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“I tried desperately, desperately, to shake back to life a man whose luck had finally run out.”

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A path. A career. Maybe even ... a purpose," Ariadne said. "Something you can do that you can believe in, that will challenge you, that won't leave you hating your life and questioning why you're even doing what you're doing." She laughed, a low, quiet laugh that had no real mirth behind it. "Unless you'd like to get to age forty and wake up to wonder where your life went.

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Life will only give you as much as you're willing to fight for.

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“Life will hit you hard, regardless of what you do-adventurer, business person, king.”

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Mourn. Get it out of your system. Because what you can do for the dead is exactly nothing. But what you can do for those still standing with you is lead.

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“I felt like a glutton for pain, like I wanted to clutch the misery close to my heart and let it sit there.”

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“You wish to believe foolishly that no matter what comes, you can simply overcome through some sense of unlimited potential or magical destiny, but that is folly. Your life hangs in the balance.”

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“I punch him twice in the head and it does nothing. He shakes it off like he's Taylor Swift”

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“The hot air wrapped me up like a blanket, curling around my body and making me want to hang my tongue out like a dog. And then spray it with water. From a fire hose. On full blast. I don't know, I think the heat was messing with my mind. It”

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To be on a journey of the spirit and follow the path of any god requires either a rigidly inflexible adherence to dogma or a tremendous sense of humor;

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“Love and logic are the poorest of bedfellows.”

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“I tried not to stare at his body because I already knew it was good. Instead I focused on his eyes.”

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“WHAT AM I? I howled at him as he retreated. A voice, deathly familiar, prickled at the back of my mind, instilling a sense of calm that came from deep inside, an answer to a question that was asked and answered somewhere in the depths of me. Soul eater, it said in a raspy, whispering voice. Succubus.”

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“Sit beside me. What happened to the girl who struggled with the fact that she'd killed”

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