Frank Beddor famous quotes

And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.
-- Frank Beddor

#Circumstances #Plans #Contingency Plans

For no matter what the world, men who deal in headwear are men to be trusted above any other.
-- Frank Beddor

#Men #World #Matter

He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.
-- Frank Beddor

#People

After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.
-- Frank Beddor

#Love #Husband #Wife

Redd turned to her assassins. "What is it I always say?" The Cat, Sacrenoir, and the others bandied uncertain glances about. "Don’t be stupid?" ventured Alistaire. "I should kill you now?" offered The Cat. "Do I have to murder everyone myself?" tried Siren. "No, idiots! When in doubt, go for the head. That’s what I always say.
-- Frank Beddor

#Stupid #Cat #Doubt

Without a twich of exertion, Redd sealed his lips with glue. "Who wants to kill him?" The Cat raised a paw. Siren and Alistare raised their hands. "Mmmmmm mmm mmm," protested Jack.
-- Frank Beddor

#Cat #Hands #Want

Are you Lewis Carroll?" Redd asked him.
-- Frank Beddor

I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.
-- Frank Beddor

#Feelings #Today #Generous

Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself with groveling or sniveling, or appeals to her nomexistent mercy. Thinking that he might still be helpful in finding her Looking Glass Maze, she said, "I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.
-- Frank Beddor

#Sacrifice #Thinking #Glasses

Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc, but I've developed a weapon capable of destroying all of Boaderland, Wonderland, Morgavia, Unterlan and who knows what else. I call it WILMA, which stands for Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation. It also happens to be the name of one of my former wives, who had to be put down on account of her feisty temper.
-- Frank Beddor

#Loss #Names #Hands

I'd had a cold that day and wasn't as powerful as usual, otherwise Alyss would never have done so well," Redd said as, in the alcove, the final image dissolved. She blew at the cloud and it drifted out into the crypt. "Has a malicious ruler ever suffered more? I think not.
-- Frank Beddor

#Powerful #Thinking #Clouds

You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.
-- Frank Beddor

Whatever power I have is nothing if I can't use it to keep safe those who mean the most to me.
-- Frank Beddor

#Mean #Use #Safe

Most of life is unbearable. It’s unbearable but we bear it
-- Frank Beddor

#Unbearable #Bears #Life Is

What am I to do with you?" Redd asked. "M-maybe you could-" Jack began. The Cat raised a paw. "I know." "It was a rhetorical question, fools! You don't answer it! Since when do I need help making anyone suffer?
-- Frank Beddor

#Cat #Suffering #Needs

For most of the universe's life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many.
-- Frank Beddor

#Struggle #Adversity #Soldier

If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I’d be killed. An honorable death doesn’t exist. Death is death. But it’s funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy
-- Frank Beddor

#Revenge #Survival #Honor

Do you know what they call themselves, all these people?" Alyss shook her head. How could she know? "Alyssians." Bibwit spelled it out. Her heart gave a little jump. Alyssians? No, they ask too much of me. "I don't think I'm ready for all of this," she said.
-- Frank Beddor

#Heart #Thinking #People

I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?
-- Frank Beddor

#Thinking #Speak

Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.
-- Frank Beddor

#Independent #Silence #Dissent

It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.
-- Frank Beddor

#Powerful #Real #Voice

Alice of Wonderland was stranded on Earth.
-- Frank Beddor

#Wonderland #Earth

If wearing this rag will in any way speed the process of gathering my furture soldiers, then I will waer it. But if it doesn't..." Vollrath bowed. "I will subject myself to your temper." You'll have no choice.
-- Frank Beddor

#Choices #Soldier #Rags

How's our young guest?" he asked. As docile as any child could be, wearing a drug-delivery system as she is," said one of the ministers. She constantly demands to see her mother," said another, "and somewhat less constantly demands that we return her homburg to her.
-- Frank Beddor

#Mother #Children #Drug

Dodge," Alyss said, putting a hand to the parrallel scars on his cheek, that brand left so long ago by The Cat. She pressed her lips against each of them--four delicate kisses. When she pulled away, he was smiling.
-- Frank Beddor

#Cat #Kissing #Hands

I'm stronger than you are, Redd.
-- Frank Beddor

#Stronger

I'm having the weirdest sense of deja vu right now," said the green caterpiller. Duh!" said the blue caterpiller. "Do you think, just maybe, that's because you predicted this?" Oh, yeah." --The Looking Glass Wars
-- Frank Beddor

#War #Thinking #Glasses

Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical question when she roared, "It's a construct!" With a dismiissive swing of Redd's arm, Alyss and her army began to shimmer, the billon points of engery that formed them monentarily visible before exploding apart into nothing. Redd scoped the queendom with her imagination's eye. "Where are you, Alyss? Where is my dear little niece?
-- Frank Beddor

#Niece #Stupid #Cat

Redd laughed. "The lovely thing about being here," she said, gesturing at the maze, "is that I'm able to immagine your imagination powerless. Ah, if only that were the case on the outside. But enough chitchat. If you're going to die--which you are--I'm sure you'd like to get it over with." --The Looking Glass Wars
-- Frank Beddor

#War #Glasses #Imagination

After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously)
-- Frank Beddor

#Thinking #Long #Silence

Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny.
-- Frank Beddor

#Children #Lucky #Use

Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.
-- Frank Beddor

#Needs #Arches #Spirit

For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man." To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service." Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo!
-- Frank Beddor

#Men #Feelings #Useless

But I killed you,” Alyss said. “Did you?” Red turned to The Cat. “Why wasn’t I informed?
-- Frank Beddor

#Cat #Red #Said

The queen is head. Long live the queen...me." The platoon of renegade soldiers cheered. Redd kicked The Cat where he lay on the floor, tongue lolling in his mouth, the picture of death. "Get up! You still have seven more lives." The Cat's eyes fluttered open. Find Alyss and kill her." With a wave of her hand, the looking glass was once again whole. The Cate jumped through, in prosuit of the only living Heart besides Redd.
-- Frank Beddor

#Queens #Heart #Cat

The black, hungry roses that Redd sent snaking towards the princess were easily squashed, the orbs and and unmanned, airborne blades of effortlessly waved off, and the spears of black energy (Alyss was flattered, her aunt borrowing this idea from her) pinned motionless to the air by Alyss's own white spears with no trouble.
-- Frank Beddor

#Princess #Aunt #Air

When I give the go ahead, go ahead," Alyss said, the jungle gym having come to a stop less than a gwormmy-length from her face. What? the four General Doppels cried at once. Run when I say so.
-- Frank Beddor

#Running #Giving #Four

A Glass Eye leaped out from behind a parcked smail-trasport, blocked thier way. "Did you drop something?" Dodge asked the assassian. "Caus I think I see you..." he unheathed his sword and swung, decapitating the Glass Eye in one blow, "...head over there.
-- Frank Beddor

#Eye #Blow #Thinking

Hatter!" She would have hugged him if she hadn't thought he'd be bothered by the dislay of affection. Pterry good timing." Dodge smiled. "A litte sooner and you would've been perfect.
-- Frank Beddor

#Perfect #Dodge #Affection

The only reason I don't kill him," he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of vocal cords, "is because he's not important enough.
-- Frank Beddor

#Voice #Iron #Important

What do you want to do with me?" she asked. You had an unpleasant tumble." He nodded toward the unfamiliar creatures. "My Ganmede friends and I are nursing you back to health, that's all." By drugging me?" (Molly and Arch)
-- Frank Beddor

#Nursing #Arches #Want

Molly wants to know her father's name," Arch said to them. "Why don't you give her a hint?" His first name with 'splatter,'" said Ripkins. And 'matter'," said Blister. Also 'fatter,'" said Ripkins. Likewise 'chatter'," added Blister. And his surname?" Arch asked. It rhymes with 'that again'," said Ripkins. And 'Flanagan," put in Blister. Also, um...'pad a fin'?" offered Ripkins. Arch and Blister looked at him. 'Pannikin!'" he said proudly. Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Molly screamed. "You don't know what you're talking about!
-- Frank Beddor

#Father #Talking #Names

It had been an annoyingly peacful time in Boarderland, Blister cranky and despressed because he hadn't filled anyone with pus for nearly an enitre lunar cycle.
-- Frank Beddor

#Blisters #Cranky #Filled

I've finished running from you, Redd. It's time for you to run." --Alyss
-- Frank Beddor

#Running

Redd shed caution like an outgrown skin.
-- Frank Beddor

#Skins #Caution #Shed

Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies.
-- Frank Beddor

#Home #Towers #Vacancy