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War Wealth Poor Poverty Rich Soldiers

Book:Lifemaker

Source: Lifemaker

“If the Regime had a factory producing Hope, the Resistance had a factory producing the tools of despair.”

Hope Despair Tools Resistance Regime Factory

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

“Some men claimed that saying things made them true. Well, many men who said they were rich still died poor. Nox said he was cool, but that sun showed him he was a liar.”

Truth Poor Sun Rich Lies Sayings Coilhunter

Book:Dustrunner

Source: Dustrunner

“I have a handful of keywords that I try to live by. One of them is: Joy. Everyone needs more joy in their lives. Maybe that means changing job to one you truly like. Maybe that means moving to another country to start a new adventure. Maybe it means forging ties with people who make you truly happy. Maybe it means creating joy in others. For me, one of the many things that brings me joy is writing. I am blessed, and very thankful, that I get to do this for a living.”

Life Inspirational Writing Play Happiness Joy Work Life Goals

Author:Dean F. Wilson

“The silence just allowed the echoes of the question to play out in Nox’s mind, reminding him of his own unwinnable war against the never-ending tide of conmen and criminals. He was trying to clean up these parts, but every time he rubbed away a stain, he found another layer of dirt beneath. So, you could give up—or you could keep on scrubbing.”

Justice Silence Science Fiction Western Criminals Old West Coilhunter Bounty Hunter Weird Western

Book:Coilhunter

Source: Coilhunter

“If you didn’t have your guns, you still had your mouth. Of course, you had to be careful how you fired that off.”

Silence Talking Science Fiction Western Badass Gunslinger Old West Coilhunter

Book:Coilhunter

Source: Coilhunter

“Panic pierced the minds of almost everyone present, logic was pummelled into the floor, and human decency was discarded like bait for the frightful fishes that flocked towards the submarine.”

Mind Logic Fishes Panic Submarine Human Decency

Book:Lifemaker

Source: Lifemaker

“Monster was such a subjective word. It was what they called the demons that made up the Regime. Perhaps it was what the demons called them. Yet they all looked alike, so perhaps neither of them were monsters—or perhaps both sides were.”

Humanity Human Demon Two Sides Monster Two Faced

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

“Jacob studied the iron graveyard, where every vehicle was its own gravestone. He drove slowly through, as if he was afraid to wake the dead. That was not it though. The general made it clear that they should fear the living.”

Fear Living Dead Graveyard Vehicles Junkyard

Book:Worldwaker

Source: Worldwaker

“Silence fell with night, but Jacob couldn't entirely silence his racing mind, nor speed it up to the finish line.”

Mind Night Quotes Silence Speed Finish Line Racing Mind

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

“Jacob and Whistler bumped into Taberah as she charged down the corridor, her hair a fiery halo, as if the hordes of Hell were behind her.”

Hell Hair Red Fiery Hordes Halo

Book:Lifemaker

Source: Lifemaker

“If the demons had made this world their Hell, then let them have it. All you could do was try to not get burned.”

World Earth Hell Fire Demon Quotes About Life Burned Demons

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

“The thought had crossed my mind, that in order to save this world from Hell, I might have to become the Devil.”

World Hell Devil Badass

Book:Skyshaker

Source: Skyshaker

“Jacob stood up slowly and turned towards the window. He felt his heart pumping like a piston, his lungs like little ballast tanks of their own. Every tiny movement was magnified, every sound amplified. The sweat dripped from his hands, forming another sea upon the floor.”

Heart Sound Sea Movement Sweat Hand Ballast Piston

Book:Lifemaker

Source: Lifemaker

“Jacob couldn't really hear the sound of the other landships over the humming and cranking of his own. He heard the whistle of steam coming from the pipes and the latching of the iron tracks as they clicked into place. He heard gears adjusting, the rhythm of the pumps, the revving of the engine, and the fuming of the furnace. He also heard Andil’s heavy breathing, and he heard his own heart’s heavy beating.”

Heart War Vehicle Steam Tracks Engine Tank Landship

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

“Just because his own wings were burnt, it didn't mean he had to burn others’.”

Quotes Empathy Wings Scars Burn Burnt

Book:Lifemaker

Source: Lifemaker

“We read to escape, to embrace, to challenge, and to understand. Reading enages our intellect, but also our empathy, and we are all the better for it.”

Inspirational Reading Fiction Books Empathy Embrace Intellect Challenge Escape Understand

Author:Dean F. Wilson

“Solitude was the friend of the smuggler, and was undoubtedly on good terms with the scout as well.”

Loneliness Solitude Alone Solitary Friend Scout Smuggler

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

“You hang your heroes. That way they’ll never disappoint you.' It also brought to mind his own retort: 'But what about your enemies? What about the villains? What do we do with those?”

Science Fiction Western Heroes Vengeance Badass Enemies Villains Gunslinger Old West Coinhunter

Book:Coilhunter

Source: Coilhunter

“I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is a genre that can tell an entertaining and enthralling story on the surface, and yet deliver a potent message underneath, where everything becomes a symbol of something greater.”

Humanity Fantasy Entertainment Mythology Symbolism

Author:Dean F. Wilson

“The mania of his comrades helped quell his fear of monsters, and made him fear instead the bashing boots of men.”

Men Fear Monsters Boots Mania Comrades

Book:Lifemaker

Source: Lifemaker

“They journeyed on for a bit, then set up camp and cooked beans over a small fire. The poor man's meat. Drifter food. Some said beans'd get you across the desert and back. Dead men said a lot of things.”

Men Food Survival Desert Dead Ghosts Beans Coilhunter Dead Men

Book:Dustrunner

Source: Dustrunner

“His eyes were like galaxies, and everyone could get lost in them. How many stars flickered there, no one knew, but every time he glanced upon someone, a new star ignited, a new star was caught in the gravity of his stare.”

Stars Space Eyes Galaxy

Book:Worldwaker

Source: Worldwaker

“The truth of it was that time was healing his outer wounds, but time with Jacob was healing the ones inside.”

Truth Time Healing Health Wounds Heal Wound

Book:Lifemaker

Source: Lifemaker

“He wondered if they knew fear, and thought that maybe if they didn’t, he could teach them it, like he’d taught manners to the foul-tongued and the red-handed.”

Justice Teaching Science Fiction Western Manners Badass Gunslinger Old West Coilhunter Bounty Hunter

Book:Rustkiller

Source: Rustkiller

“I hoarded real gold when that was worth anything. If the currency had changed to sugar cubes, I might've opened a candy shop.”

Money Gold Sugar Currency Worth Coins Candy

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

“Behind the sternness of his voice there was a shackled anger, and beneath that shackled anger there was a buried pain.”

Inspirational Pain Voice Sad Anger Buried Repressed Hidden Suppressed Sternness

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

“They continued this deadly dance across the battlefield, played to the music of gunfire, which rattled them as much as it rattled the hulls of almost every landship in sight, and almost every one they couldn't turn quickly enough to see. Then the music took a bullet of its own, for Jacob no longer heard the song of Andil’s gun.”

Song Quotes Music Gun Battlefield Drum Tank Rattle Gunfire

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

“Ben looked at his compatriots, just a quick glance to and fro, but it was enough for Nox to see that they'd made their bets. They were putting it all on red.”

Life Blood Gambling Bet Coilhunter Gunfight Shootout

Book:Dustrunner

Source: Dustrunner

“We can bet on one thing in our flight, and that's that the Regime will be looking for us. Their maw is likely here in the west, where they know we're strongest. If you linger near the mouth of a predator, you make yourself an easy dish. Sometimes you're safer beneath the belly of the beast.”

Quotes Safety Flight Quotes To Live By Beast Prey Predator Mouth Safer Maw

Book:Lifemaker

Source: Lifemaker

“The abyss was awake, and its entire population was stirring, some to flee, some to investigate, but many, all too many, to feed. Fishes with fangs came. Bulbous bloated creatures came. Shelled monsters with massive jaws came. Things that defied description came. Every form or shape that stalked the nightmares of a child lurked there in the deep, and they all descended on the Lifemaker, no eyes to see, but many mouths to taste.”

Sea Ocean Fishes Monsters Abyss Fish Mouth Fang

Book:Lifemaker

Source: Lifemaker

“Let me warn you again, in case your ghost ever tries to condemn me.”

Quotes Ghost Warning Haunting Condemnation Condemn Warn

Book:Lifemaker

Source: Lifemaker

“If the Wild North were a living place, as the local tribes often claimed, then these were the embodiment of its dark subconscious. The spirits of men could haunt you, so why would the spirits of machines be any different?”

Machines Science Fiction Western Dead Haunting Spirits Old West Coilhunter Bounty Hunter

Book:Rustkiller

Source: Rustkiller

“Nox didn’t say a word. He waited, counting the seconds in his mind. Sometimes you counted bullets and sometimes you counted time. Either one could kill you.”

Death Time Science Fiction Western Badass Guns Gunslinger Coilhunter

Book:Rustkiller

Source: Rustkiller

“In Altadas, chance was a loaded die—and just as often a loaded gun.”

Gun Western Clever Die Grim Dice Grimdark Loaded Dice Loaded Die

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

“In the black abyss, there were creatures that even demons feared. No one knew what they looked like, not even themselves, for they were blind, and though many were scavengers, seizing and consuming any stray bits of food that'd sunk down from the higher levels, there were predators too, just waiting for larger prey.”

Sea Ocean Blind Deep Abyss Prey Predator Fish Creature

Book:Lifemaker

Source: Lifemaker

“As the vessel fell, the pressure rose. The hull creaked as if held inside the crushing fist of a giant, or the chomping maw of a giant fish. The most senior officers were unperturbed by the groaning of the metal, for they knew that the hull was thick and could withstand the terrible pressures of the deep, but the confidence of many others was shaken when bolts burst out of their holdings, striking walls, breaking the glass of gaslights, and even hitting members of the crew with a most violent force.”

Sea Ocean Pressure Deep Hull Submarine

Book:Lifemaker

Source: Lifemaker

“No one, not even the demons of the Regime, could survive at the immense pressures of the abyss, and even if they could, they would likely drown before they set eyes upon the gaping maws of the denizens of the deep.”

Deep Eyes Abyss Demons Survive Drown Denizens Maws

Book:Lifemaker

Source: Lifemaker

“As the darkness deepened, the sky was streaked with veins of red, the last low beats of a dying sun. Against this scarlet canopy the hulk of the Rust Road's twin peaks stood tall, mountains of metal, unnaturally jagged. Their sharp pinnacles pierced the sky, and Jacob could not help but wonder if that explained the blood there.”

Sky Landscape Sunset Mountains Dusk

Book:Worldwaker

Source: Worldwaker

“The glare filled the cockpit like a passenger, until every piece of metal, every crag and cog, was illuminated, until the very metal itself glared back, and might've blinded the eyes of the sun.”

Sun Eyes Glare Metal Cockpit Passenger Illuminated

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

“All the while, that seemingly sympathetic sun was growing a little fiercer, smiling a little broader. Sometimes the land didn't have to get you. You got yourself.”

Sun Land Western Sci Fi Cowboy Self Destruction Wild West Coilhunter Weird West

Book:Rustkiller

Source: Rustkiller

“They began their climb, already weary, and the sun tried to steal whatever strength they had left. It was another god, a forgotten god, who gave a daily reminder, and was forgotten again each night.”

God Night Sun Sunset Sunrise Day

Book:Worldwaker

Source: Worldwaker

“Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.”

Action Adventure Badass Dynamite

Book:Skyshaker

Source: Skyshaker

“It was hard to conceive of one so young roped into the war, but that was war for you. Jacob was just shy of twice his age and had avoided the rope so far. He thought that was a good thing. You see, the rope'd hang you.”

War Age Young Youth Battle Conflict Rope Hang

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

“There are two types of discipline. Discipline that destroys and discipline that preserves. The Regime is the former. It disciplines through fear and control, through pain and punishment. To it, discipline is not about self-control, but controlling others. The Resistance is the latter. We employ discipline to ensure that our goals, the preservation of our nation, and of the human race, are achieved, with swiftness and success.”

Pain Discipline Punishment Control Self Control Preservation

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

“Be idealistic about the future, be realistic about the present, and never forget the lessons of the past.”

Inspirational Past Life Lessons Hope Future Never Forget Present Realism Idealism Lesson

Author:Dean F. Wilson

“That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.”

Talking Listening Words Cowboy Badass Guns Gunslinger Coilhunter Bounty Hunter

Book:Dustrunner

Source: Dustrunner

“His father used to tell him that you can't eat principles. And no, you couldn't. But you could live by them.”

Principles Science Fiction Western Honour Cowboy Badass Gunslinger Coilhunter Code Of Conduct

Book:Dustrunner

Source: Dustrunner

“Some criminals said fighting Nox was like fighting ghosts. He seemed to come from everywhere. Most criminals who fought Nox never said anything at all.”

Justice Western Criminals Ghosts Cowboy Wild West Coilhunter Bounty Hunter Weird West

Book:Rustkiller

Source: Rustkiller

“The Hope factory was menacing in the distance, for it was one of the few buildings that somehow managed to present itself through the smog. Its hulking form consumed almost all of the horizon, and its many pistons, pillars, chimneys and flumes ate into the heavens. For the parts of the sky it could not reach, those towers sent up endless streams of smoke, and this smoke devoured the natural clouds and left an unnatural haze in the heavens. The factory was a greedy mass of brick, a ravenous form of iron. As much as it gobbled up all the landscape, it threatened that it might eat the onlookers too.”

Hope Building Industry Smoke Smog Industrial Factory Chimney

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

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