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“When it’s over, all the equipment used is destroyed, even your clothing. Once it’s over every operator wipes his cranial hard drive clean of every moment of the mission, and you collectively go into blackout mode.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Then she tilted the can and dripped the gasoline throughout the old wooden structure. She didn’t have either time or strength to haul the bodies. In a better world, she would have given One a decent burial, and positioned Four in the driver’s seat of her fashionable vehicle, but alas, neither was possible.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“You’re making me think of something else now, but it’s related. I love watching little kids play. No matter where you look in the world, you’ll observe that kids are programmed to play. They learn through play. I think if we’re lucky we never forget how to play. And, I tell you, Gwinlyn, that’s one of the things I find most attractive about you. You like to play, and you like to play with me. Unfortunately, too many women I’ve met prefer to be grown up all the time. They take themselves too seriously.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Gigi’s actual name was Jolene Kraken. If her penetralia was exposed, even Gigi herself would be surprised. She was smart, aloof, indifferent to the opinions of others. Maybe she was amoral. Maybe because self-analysis wasn’t her strong suit. Neither did self-analysis interest her. Her goal as a young woman was to make serious money, enough to set her up for a life in which she could romp and stomp through the world doing exactly what she wished. And frequently what she wished was to deliver justice to people with bad intentions. She wanted to hurt people who hurt people.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“A psychiatrist would diagnose Jolene—and possibly every member of Cade Chase’s team—as having a benign form of psychosis. Benign, because she had not experienced a psychotic break. She was far short of being psychotic, but only because her brain and soul allowed her to manage her dissociative behavior well. The unconscious guides such people.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“He was one of the lucky ones. He would follow operational orders, but he spoke out if he believed a senior officer was wrong in a moral sense. At a number of points his career might have been truncated because a senior considered him an impertinent malcontent.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Antifa was happy to have high school graduates turned out year after year who don’t know a fraction of the essential information that one hundred years ago every sixth-grader knew. The dumber the person, the more malleable and easier to convince they became.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“People in Washington love to use the word ‘systemic.â€� You know, ‘We’re going to attack the ‘systemicâ€� causesâ€� of this or that.â€� That’s supposed to convince us they’re thinking many layers more deeply than us. But where it counts, they strike out.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“There it was, burned into the text box, their code: “Sword of the Spirit.â€� They’d both attended weekly Bible study at the home of a lay person, and after the session one evening they talked about the expression that ultimately would become their code. They interpreted it to mean ‘the Word of God.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Ryan’s passion towards Stephanie surged around the restaurant like lightning from the love-gods and re-ignited her own dormant feelings for Lharkin.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“Night Realm. He is the one who had the power to change the Empians: the Dark Descent.â€� She turned to him. “The fact he’s beckoning you means a lot. For one: you are not on his side, and he wants you to be.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“Blue light streamed out from her hands and pounded into the desert. An enormous mass of sand flew into the air, leaving behind a gaping hole. The officers closest to it fell back on the ground from the energy pushing up into the air as if the earth was exhaling a breath held for hundreds of years.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“Pain seared through Cassandra as if the Gods answered by slicing her belly with a serrated knife, wanting to extract the horror from inside of her before she could let it loose into the world.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“It was a limbo of an existence; he couldn’t have what he once had, and he was never able to move on. His memories were his only company.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“He reached out to touch her cool flesh…bright flashes of heated fear soared through him as if his soul was dipped in the boiling liquids of purgatory.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“The images of the dead woman flew into his mind like a bat that had just feasted, blood dripping from its fangs where it wanted to seep into his subconscious and awaken a hidden side of him.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“He held his head back to let the rain fall on his face with a small grin. When he opened his eyes, he looked across the crowd, straight at Cassandra. All the rain in the world could not wash down the growing heat of her passion for him.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“A perverse sensation glided across his skin. It wanted to search deeper until Ryan understood that this presence wanted to do more than that: it wanted him. Normally he was the one that could touch and get to know objects or people. But this temple was also exercising the same gift on him.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“The commander stopped in front of Audray. “Well, isn’t this a special day. We have the temple, this chamber I never knew about, and the woman who stole my husband!”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“Sand rose into the air, spinning a maelstrom of protection against bullets. She looked up at him: his face contorted with concentration while the wind played with his dark hair. His arms tightened around her until she felt every contour of his body against hers. Her heart raced faster than the churning sand, and her breath was lost as if the vortex siphoned it.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“He witnessed the love people throughout the industry had for their animals and for the sport itself. Someone once snapped a picture depicting his rictus of wonderment as he listened to a stable mate trace the lineage of a horse in a neighboring stall. Sires and dams, by name, for generations back. Wil could tell the lad wasn’t fabricating those names. We remember what we love.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Even given the ability of black clothing to trick the eye into believing the wearer is slimmer than he truly is, Mario still appeared to be a rolling tube of sausage with an immense bulge in the middle regions of his ill-tended anatomy. His skull was similarly immense, though not likely because it housed a large cranium. The only hair on his head was the oily curl of black hairs that circled the skull about the height of mid-ear. His eyebrows were ponderous, great furry awnings over the eyelids.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“It was this dichotomy of one’s perspective towards a child that could drive a parent insane.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“Not even her lover’s embrace could penetrate the chill that founds its way deep into her soul.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“The truth had always been there, but he had been afraid to delve into his past. It only eventually caught up to him anyway, like a relentless monster, gobbling up his entire life, the bones having been spat out, leaving behind a pathetic existence.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“How can you help me and protect me when you lie to me? How can I be a good man when you don’t have faith that I will be one?”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“Over the years, the rough edges of torture hardened her soft face and dimmed the brilliance of her eyes. In her trials of fighting to have his father regain the Light, she had in turn lost her own.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“Be careful with your visions, Ryan; that the nightmare doesn’t consume your reality, where you begin to live in that nightmare, and can only dream back your reality.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“From all of the battles over the years, Raesha changed into something darker than any Empian who had gone through the Dark Descent ever did. She entered the Dark Guardian’s spirit domain and came out something horrific. She is dead, and I want memories of her to be, too.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“The world rumbled around them. The Kins walked away from the long line of sand that rose into the air. An extensive tunnel emerged like a ginormous serpent, shaking off the desert as if it was done its play.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two