Lucan's Quotes

#1. Quinn was used to Lucan's quiet ways. He'd always been the thinker of them, the one who waited and watched and formulated a plan, the one with a steady head, a cool temper. It stood to reason that he would be the one to keep them together as well as master the god inside him.

Donna Grant

#2. He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.

Lucan

#3. Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

Lucan

#4. He so enjoyed disconcerting a woman of conservative sensibilities, and he suspected that the detective had inhibitions atop reservations wrapped in reticense.
Lucan thinking about Samantha
Dark Need by Lynn Viehl

Lynn Viehl

#5. The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.

Lucan

#6. The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan

#7. I'm bonded to her, Lucan. I love her. If you want to keep me out of this, you're going to have to kill me right here and now.

Lara Adrian

#8. It's the other part I'm not so sure about. You got any advice for me on that, Lucan?"
"Sure." The vampire grunted, his smile filled with dark amusement. "Dust off your knees, brother, because you may damn well end up walking on them before the night is through.

Lara Adrian

#9. There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Lucan

#10. Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

Lucan

#11. Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.

Lucan

#12. Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.

Lucan

#13. Maybe there's a place for a rebel ghost within the Order's ranks after all." - Lucan

Lara Adrian

#14. Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

Lucan

#15. From the beginning, Tegan, you were more brother to me than any kin by blood. You still are."
Tegan felt likewise, in spite of all they'd been through. Maybe because of it. "I'll always have your back, Lucan. You can count on it.

Lara Adrian

#16. Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.

Lucan

#17. I'm ready when you are, Lucan."
"Okay," he said, shaking his head in defeat. "Let's go get our boy.

Lara Adrian

#18. I would rather kill her myself than let my father take her as a punishment in my cycle.
Because that's what love is.
Protection.

J.A. Huss

#19. But he didn't need to seek visual confirmation of what he'd just heard to know she had. And the truth was, he couldn't blame her. He'd not have let her die, either. He'd have moved mountains. He'd have battled God or Devil for his wife's life.
She'd betrayed him.
He smiled faintly.

Karen Marie Moning

#20. Not a stone but has its history.

Lucan

#21. I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be, to tell you the truth. She's the only thing that's held me together in a very long time. I'm a wreck for this woman, my friend. She owns me now.

Lara Adrian

#22. Lock and load, everyone," Lucan said, casting a grave look at the rest of them. "It's gonna be a long, bloody night.

Lara Adrian

#23. The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.

Lucan

#24. Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Lucan

#25. Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.

Marcus Annaeus Lucan

#26. The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan

#27. Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

Marcus Annaeus Lucan

#28. Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

Lucan

#29. I cheated when I gifted Tier. And this makes me smile, because it was so easy and simple. And it was something my father never understood.
Love is earned, not mandated.
So I loved Tier back.
Fiercely.

J.A. Huss

#30. To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

Lucan

#31. As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.

Lucan

#32. As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.

Lucan

#33. A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

Lucan

#34. Might was the measure of right.

Marcus Annaeus Lucan

#35. Come with me. It's so much better than coming alone.
(Lucan whispered to Lena)

Lynn Viehl

#36. How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

Lucan

#37. Go litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye,
Ther God thi makere yet, er that he dye,
So sende myght to make in som comedye!
But litel book, no makyng thow n'envie,
But subgit be to alle poesye;
And kis the steppes where as thow seest pace
Virgile, Ovide, Omer, Lucan, and Stace.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#38. Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

Lucan

#39. It felt right, seeing them joined as a mated couple. A partnership that had been tested more than most, and hard-won. Lucan

Lara Adrian

#40. -tacito mala vota susiro concipimus"
-- Lucan v 94
With silent whisperings we,
For ill things supplicants be.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

#41. A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

Lucan

#42. No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

Lucan

#43. An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

Lucan

#44. The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.

Lucan

#45. By boldness great fears are cancealed.

Lucan

#46. Dust off your knees, brother, because you may damn well end up walking on them before the night is through.
Lucan (in response to Dante's request for advice) - Kiss of Crimson

Lara Adrian

#47. Men fear what they themselves have imagined.

Lucan

#48. Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

Lucan

#49. Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.

Lucan

#50. Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

Lucan

#51. I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

Lucan

#52. Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan

#53. All go free when multitudes offend.

Lucan

#54. He'll want to stay there forever, in a life that was simple, and the only thing that mattered was love.

Jay McLean

#55. As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.

Lucan