Storm and Silence Quotes

“Knowledge is power is time is money.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Chains of gold are still chains.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Only stupid men would want stupid wives!”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“A man.
A really manly man with a lot of mannishness in his manliness.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“And worse, far worse – he wasn't just kissing me. He was making me like it! And he was somehow, by some nefarious chauvinistic manly trick managing to make me kiss him back!”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“His blue-green eyes were dark pools of immeasurable depth, pools you could drown yourself in and never again come up for air.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Then don't you dare tell me my dreams are insane! Because my dreams are what I live for!”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Hard. That was what he looked like. That was what you first noticed about him: a hard, chiselled face, like that that of some ancient Greek statue.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“You expect me to come and work for you dressed up as a man?” I gasped.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“His lips reached mine and enveloped them, soft as velvet and yet unyielding.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“His silent, stony face was only inches away now. He was so near, so terribly near – and then he moved to close the last bit of distance.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“It is your choice,” he said, so close to me that our lips were almost touching. “Either do what I say—or get another job.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“She turned the doorknob and pushed - but the door wouldn’t budge. ‘Lillian? Lillian, don't tell me this door is bolted!’
‘That’s fine,’ I answered in as light a tone as I could manage while frantically unbuttoning Uncle Bufford’s
waistcoat. ‘I won’t tell you, I promise.’
‘Don’t get smart with me, young lady! Is
this door bolted?’
‘You just asked me not to tell you that. So I can’t, even though technically it actually might be true.’
‘Lillian!”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Life is not about living the safer option,’ I told him sleepily. ‘Life is about living a life worth living.’ ‘You”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“I instantly and absolutely mistrusted him. I
disliked all men as a matter of principle, but handsome men, especially ones with a strong chin and overbearing manner, were at the top of my ‘things to exterminate to make this world a better place’-list. This particular specimen of manhood in front of me looked like just the kind of fellow who might have come up with the
brute force argument.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“knowledge is power is time is money”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“You have a strange definition of “fun”, Mr Linton.’ ‘And you don't have one at all.’ ‘Mr Linton?’ ‘Yes, Sir?’ ‘Be quiet.’ ‘Yes, Sir!”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“The country was a nice thing, as long as it was in the middle of town and you could reach a civilized place with shops, libraries and newspapers within five minutes or so.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“I was a city girl, and the few trees and lawns of Green Park were as much country as I could deal with at any given time.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“What in God's name is an Ifrit?" I demanded. "A powerful half-demon from Arabian Mythology," Mr Ambrose informed me.

"They are over 12 feet tall, armed with huge swords and have fists and wings that burn with hellfire."

Dear me. I had no idea Karim thought so highly of me.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Running from my problems had never been my style. Grabbing them by the throat and shaking them until they capitulated, that was more my way of dealing with things.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“You just threatened to kill me and now you're offering me a handkerchief?" I asked, tearfully.

He shrugged, and the awkwardness vanished as he fixed me with his eyes again. "I can hardly question you further while you are... leaking like this. It is noisy and messy. Put an end to it. Now!”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence