The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue Quotes

“You lost sight of what was important... and sometimes, to gain something you have to let something go.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“She flies at the cage. Bat-like, she clings to the bars...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Be careful what you wish for... your wish will visit you tenfold.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... something was not right... almost as if something were hiding amongst the paint... squeezed in between the brush strokes... a kind of presence bringing it alive...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... a living, breathing entity not dissimilar to the interior of a cathedral – one of wood, living wood. Where the cathedral had carved stone, here were trees, ivy, flowers, all working together to form the walls...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; I love you no matter what your choices, my lovely.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Oh yes, that’s about as sensitive as blunt trauma.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“You see, we black cats are the only thing between you and certain death.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“In my world it’s different; when you die, that’s it, kaboosh, fin, over, the end.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... but it didn’t change the fact that the conscious mind remained the same for a Regen and you just couldn’t go through several lifetimes and retain the innocence of youth; some things you just could not unsee, unfeel or undo.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“We as a race are the sole reason this planet is in the mess it is.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Trad had refused to stop until every last one of the Alliance Innesomids had been brought back under Octunnumi protection.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Father... just for once can you live in the moment?”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Passing through is fine; hanging around not so much.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“I’ll have you know there’s nothing wrong with knitting.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Trad moves to get a better view of the water falling in a continuous, glistening cascade from the uppermost level of the atrium to the lagoon below.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Each bringing a hoof down hard on the floor, Asttriane and Nell set in motion a series of chains...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Muses are the Mata Haris of inspiration.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... this little planet of ours has much to offer...’ ‘... or have you always known?”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“We have always been herbalists and healers, Trad...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Your role out there is to give something back, guide the way forward... Maybe, just maybe if you spent a little less time looking out for yourself and a little more time thinking about... no, scratch that, just thinking would be a start.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... a safe haven, a place where the oppressed, the different, the fearful could exist, untroubled... hence its name, ‘Narytusca, home of the Circus’.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“If you stay for too long, the story will take you.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... aware that her hair is also bouncing... she too must have ringlets... struggling to control the movement of her crinoline petticoat under the heavy fabric of her skirts as it, too, bobs in time with her hair...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... catching sight of the metal fused onto stripped bone, ligaments visible where the two meet as the advancing metal and flesh army stride easily across the granite steps.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Really?’ Ellery says, looking over Grace as if she were dirt on her shoe, which probably would be preferable to being at the end of Ellery’s stare.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Is there never going to be a time when we are not trying to right the wrongs of those who came before us?”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... we know where this will end,’ he says, gesturing his ageing body. ‘... I am after all nothing more than my roots – a typical Amunarainith...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“To serves the Etkaberrohn Queen in her quests to forget her brokenary hearts...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“This is a high security men’s institution and they are complaining about me? Have you seen the guy who thinks he is Hannibal Lecter?”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue