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

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. "Bravo!

— Frank Beddor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Should' is my all-time least favorite word! It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up ourselves and others.

— Frank Beddor