Top 67 Quotes About Beddor
#1. 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.
Frank Beddor
#2. 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
#3. We're family," Alyss said.
Redd snorted. "Is that supposed to mean something?"
Family," Alyss said again, trying to convince herself more than Redd.
Don't talk to me about family! You were never disowned by your parents!"
I'd rather have been disowned by them then see them murdered.
Frank Beddor
#4. 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
#6. Ah, ah, no buts. You've just returned to us and it is too soon to express whatever doubts you undoubtedly have with that most cowardly of words, that qualifier of qualifiers, but.
Frank Beddor
#8. It is sometimes braver to run. She who runs from her enemies until she has the strength to do otherwise is both brave and wise.
Frank Beddor
#9. But I killed you," Alyss said. "Did you?" Red turned to The Cat. "Why wasn't I informed?
Frank Beddor
#10. The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.
Frank Beddor
#11. 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
#12. Homburg Molly is my daughter, Homburg Molly is my daughter.
Frank Beddor
#13. It's all in your head," Genevieve said.
I know," said Alyss, and despite the traumas of the past , the uncertainty of the future, she wouldn't have given up this moment for anything.
"Isn't it wonderful?
Frank Beddor
#14. I'd say she's ready, wouldn't you?
The Rook, The Looking Glass Wars
Frank Beddor
#16. 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
#18. Whatever power I have is nothing if I can't use it to keep safe those who mean the most to me.
Frank Beddor
#20. Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies.
Frank Beddor
#22. 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
#23. She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened
hard to live with it.
Frank Beddor
#24. 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
#25. Alice of Wonderland was stranded on Earth.
Frank Beddor
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. I tell you to think black thoughts and you come up with that?!" the lieutenant had screamed. "Is a guinea pig bad? Do you consider a guinea pig the representation of all that is evil?"
Maybe ... if it's an evil guinea pig.
Frank Beddor
#29. You see, I'm not above helping an unfortunate soul find new purpose in life ... so long as it benefits me
Frank Beddor
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#35. Should is my all time least favorite word. It's this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.
Frank Beddor
#36. Being a Milliner's about standing up for what's right, for those who can't stand up for themselves.
Frank Beddor
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Hatter, my love, we never got a chance to say good-bye.
Weaver
Frank Beddor
#40. 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
#41. 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
#43. But I killed you," said Alyss.
Did you?" Redd turned to The Cat. "Why wasn't I informed?"
The Looking Glass Wars
Frank Beddor
#44. Ooh, the staring at threads class. My favorite.
Frank Beddor
#45. I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.
Frank Beddor
#46. After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'"
-Dodge(obviously)
Frank Beddor
#47. He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.
Frank Beddor
#48. I am more powerful than that disgustingly well-intenioned niece of mine!
Redd Heart
Frank Beddor
#49. That's your problem, isn't it, Madigan? Too much feeling.
Frank Beddor
#50. Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.
Frank Beddor
#51. I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?
Frank Beddor
#52. Speeches are for politicians. We are Milliners, Wonderlanders of action.
Frank Beddor
#53. She didn't bother to understand it all; it was history
boring boring boring.
Frank Beddor
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.
Frank Beddor
#59. I've finished running from you, Redd. It's time for you to run.
Alyss
Frank Beddor
#60. Off with their heads!" the woman screamed. "Off with their stinking, boring heads!""
Redd, The Looking Class Wars
Frank Beddor
#61. A person's voice can have such a powerful experience on the listener, very different from looking at the words on the page.
Frank Beddor
#62. For no matter what the world, men who deal in headwear are men to be trusted above any other.
Frank Beddor
#64. Something stiffened, moved. Just as Alyss realized who it was, standing with bowed head at Sir Justice's grave
Dodge.
He whirled around, the point of his sword aimed at her throat.
Not the warmest way to great your ... " She was about tosay "queen" but changed her mind. " ... friend.
Frank Beddor
#65. 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
#66. Most of life is unbearable. It's unbearable but we bear it
Frank Beddor
#67. Here kitty, kitty. Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.
Dodge
Frank Beddor
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