Learning about Jules through Quotes
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suspecteverything"Wow. Someone who's a bigger leper than I am. Never thought I'd live to see the day." - Jullien
"Yeah, and I don't believe in burning bridges. Rather I bomb those mothers to the ground and toast marshmallows over their smoldering remains." - Jullien
"After I grabbed the bomb, I realized that I was holding it with my left hand. Luckily, I had time to change it before it went off." - Jullien
"Really? That's your main concern?" - Ushara
"Hey now, don't mock. Had I not switched hands before detonation, I would have lost both the ring and my tattoo. That would have been a tragedy." - Jullien
"Damn it, Jullien! You're such an asshole!" - Thraix
"My name isn't Damn-it-Jullien, you know? I'm really tired of everyone calling me that all the time." - Jullien
"No, but it should have been. And Asshole should be your surname. You sure that's not what Anatole means in Andarion? They almost sound the same." - Thraix
"Ha. Ha." - Jullien
"I think you broke your head, Andarion. Probably got brain damage." - Thraix
"Like anyone could ever tell the difference." - Jullien
"While you lay upstairs in your drugged stupor under Galene's tender loving care, Matarra, with your guards to watch over and protect you from harm in your opulent luxury, this was where I was brutalized in my youth. Every time you ran to your mother, Tylie, and told her stories about how sorry I was as an Androkyn, or how I embarrassed you and Andaria, this is where I was sent to be reeducated and punished. When you, Father, refused to come get me or demanded that i go to rehab over the drugs my family was injecting in me against my will, this was where I usually ended up. Thank you all for my happy childhood memories. Really. They've only been surpassed by the diligent love and care you've given me these last few years after you exiled me and allowed the Thrill-Kill warrant on my life to stand uncontested and every assassin in the Nine Worlds to hunt me to the corners of the universe, where I've had absolutely no amnesty or haven whatsoever." - Jullien
"I should have killed you when you were born!" - Eriadne
"Probably. Would have saved us both a lot of trouble." - Jullien
"I would have made you the greatest tadar Andaria has ever known!" - Eriadne
"I'd have rather you just left me alone, bitch. But I do have to thank you for one gift. The ability to move and function while I'm in excruciating pain." - Jullien
All quotes belong to Sherrilyn Kenyon from Born of Legend and other League novels.
"Yeah, and I don't believe in burning bridges. Rather I bomb those mothers to the ground and toast marshmallows over their smoldering remains." - Jullien
"Who among us is not ever-changing? Ever evolving into someone new? Maybe someone better... or someone worse. Honestly? I would sell whatever is left of my used up, blackened soul to be the hero Vasili sees whenever he looks at me and not the piece of worthless shit I know for a fact I truly am." - Jullien
"Put no one at your back unless you want them to drive a knife through it." - Jullien
"Am I not supposed to like you?" - Ushara
"You'd be the first in history to do so." - Jullien
"An engine's an engine. If I can't figure it out, I can always do some research. They tell me that these little doodad symbol things represent letters that when you put them together, they make cohesive words and form complex sentences. Those sentences form comprehensible paragraphs that can then explain how those ships and engines work, and miraculously tell you all kinds of things you don't know. And that each one of those large, flying objects around us have these incredible items you can access called services manuals that will actually tell you how they operate, and how to repair them when they don't. It's all dark, soul-sucking magic, really." - Jullien
Jullien set the universe's record for the shortest fuse - as most likely to agitate any situation, anytime, anywhere.
"Most beings regret being around me, sooner rather than later." - Jullien
"I'm not going to defend my family - they've never protected me, as that lovely death warrant clearly demonstrates. And I'm not into making excuses for the actions I was forced to take while trying to stay alive in an extremely hostile environment, where every breath I drew was likely to be my last, and everyone around me was plotting my death, dismemberment, and betrayal. If you want to kill me, do it. You're in luck. I'm in too much pain today to fight for a life I never really wanted, anyway." - Jullien
"I'm particularly skilled at pissing off everyone around me. Quite exceptional at it, point of fact. Been known to do so by merely entering a room." - Jullien
That was how [Jullien] was. Never sought credit for any good deed, because if he was ever caught doing one, it was met with extreme suspicion from everyone around him.
"Given how many individuals passionately hate my guts, most of them very close relatives in line for my throne, you honestly think I'd trust anyone to touch something with mechanical moving parts and fuel injection systems that could horrendously explode with me trapped inside it, and it look like an easy accident where I'm burned beyond all recognition? Really?" - Jullien
"Paranoid much?" - Ushara
"Second most hated being on all of Andaria. Most hated prince in the entire history of the Triosan empire - that's not my boasting, they actually took polls and wrote articles about it. I won. Hands down. No contest. Ten straight years on Andaria. And let me reiterate that my own grandmother murdered my grandfather during a PMS hissy fit, the majority of her family, my twin brother when we were only five - or at least tried to, and my mother slaughtered a number of her own siblings, including my doppelganger... Paranoia, insomnia, and an overly high degree of extreme flexibility and peripheral vision are the only reasons I'm still breathing. Go me." - Jullien
"We all have problems. As my father said, I made my bed and since my favorite pastime was wallowing in my sheets, he hoped I enjoyed the ones I'd picked out... For the record? They really chafe. Especially my tender places. And don't even ask about the super wedgie they give me when I walk." - Jullien
"How can you make light of it?" - Ushara
"What good is crying? I tried it once. Made my throat sore and gave me a head cold. Pissed off my grandmother to no end who decided there was never any real reason to cry unless she personally gave me one. After that precious, life-altering ass-beating, I decided it was easier to hold it in." - Jullien
"I had no positive role models growing up, and therefore I react badly in most situations. Tend to act out in extreme, self destructive ways. In short, I'm an abrasive, unlovable asshole with antisocial tendencies. It's all my fault that I ended up like this. I accept it fully. I don't blame my parents for how I turned out. There's no need. Since they weren't there during my childhood, I don't see how they're responsible for my adulthood. I'm the one who raised me and I sucked at it. Never could keep a pet for long either. They always bonded to someone else and left me. Even my pet fish jumped from their bowls to commit suicide rather than suffer my boorish company." - Jullien
"I've already been judged and sentenced, and the one thing I learned from my family is that once a verdict is rendered, there's no mercy from it." - Jullien
"I was suicidal at one time. Didn't care if they killed me or not. A part of me was hoping they'd succeed. The only reason I care now is I'm not about to let some asshole become a millionaire off my back because I laid down and let them cut my throat. They take me in, bastard's gonna earn it and I'm taking an equal amount of his ass to the grave with me. I'm a contrary prick that way." - Jullien
"What have they done to you that you can't trust anyone? For anything?" - Ushara
"You really don't want me to answer that." - Jullien
"I know I'm an unwanted piece of shit and I accept that. But then you came around and you show me glimpses of a world I can't be a part of. You show me what it's like to be normal, and then when reality returns it's just that much harder for me to deal with. I'd rather you beat and insult me like everyone else does, than do this anymore. It's far too cruel." - Jullien
Happy endings didn't come to eton Anatoles. And they damn sure didn't come to creatures who'd lived a life like his. - Jullien's thoughts
"Well, since I don't know who Dumbass is, I shall be more than happy to stand in for him or her, provided a more suitable moniker is chosen for me. I'm rather fond of Shit-for-Brains, myself. Shithead for short." - Jullien
"Honestly, I was trying not to be so stupid this time. You see how it turned out. Perhaps next time I should try for an all-out moron. That might actually work for me." - Jullien
"If you're late for work tomorrow, I'm going to kick your ass." - Sheila
"Well, it's been a good fifteen minutes since my last ass-kicking. I should be due a new one by morning." - Jullien
"I understand the need to strike the first blow before they do. I certainly don't hold it against her, and I know she doesn't mean it. Besides my ego isn't that fragile. It would require that I actually possess one." - Jullien
"What's your damage?" - Sheila
"Head injury at birth. Lack of parental love and support. Oppositional defiant disorder. And a blatant disregard for authority figures, particularly those in uniform and with badges. But that's not why I'm here." - Jullien
"I had my nervous breakdown. Licked my wounds. Now I'm back. The one thing you can thank my psychotic grandmother and aunt for - I learned to snap back fast from the brink of insanity. I had to. I take the hard hit. Withdraw inward, catch my breath, get fucking pissed and come back fighting twice as hard, with renewed vigor and determination. That's what I do. It's why I'm still here and alive while the rest of my family is in their graves. Bitches rang my bell - their mistake. They let me up off the ground. Now, I'm answering the door. They want a piece of me? They're going to earn it." - Jullien
"Nice... Glaring at me?" - Jullien
"With a lot of hatred." - Vasili
"Awesome. I'm not as paranoid as I thought." - Jullien
"Then you need to go and find another female to shame. My grastiya is the vice admiral of this Nation and the well respected widow of a former admiral. I will not have her reputation tarnished by being linked to an Outcast comet slag such as you. Do you understand?" - Ushara's grandmother
"I understand, Ger Tarra. Forgive me for my dishonor to your family." - Jullien
"As I said, I am guilty of a lot of instigation when my Fuck-It List kicks in. My temper and mouth are not my friends. I have a bad tendency to walk around half-cocked on my best day. And that was one of my particularly stellar evenings. If there is a right or wrong thing to do in any given situation, my innate tendency is always for whatever is going to get me into the most trouble." - Jullien
"No one's ever said that to you before, have they?" - Ushara, discussing the words "I love you."
"No. No, they have not." - Jullien
"Does he ever speak?" - Vasili's teacher
"Those who don't know me think I'm quiet. Those who do, wish I was." - Jullien
"Beg pardon?" - Vasili's teacher
"I typically practice excessive sarcasm since random throat punches tend to get me arrested in most systems." - Jullien
"And that's why we don't let him talk much. Have a nice day. Gah... I can't believe Shara lets you out in public without supervision." - Davel
"What? Nobody bled, died, or was bashed in the head during that meeting. My social skills are vastly improving, especially given the mood I'm in." - Jullien
His ability to handle and push people never failed to impress her. Of course, he normally pushed them over the edge and past the point of homicide. But when he chose to be diplomatic and caring... There were few better at it. - Ushara's thoughts about Jullien
"You are warm and sweet. Intelligent and protective... a little psychotically so. You give without asking. No male has ever made me feel as loved or needed as you do. What is there not to adore?" - Ushara
"I'm belligerent. Crass. Ill-tempered. Quick-tempered. And half of your family, and the entirety of mine want to kill me. That's just for starters. And as you noted, I'm psychotic." - Jullien
"You know what your problem is?" - Payne
"Yeah. The fact that I like the way that vein throbs in your temple when my mouth sets your fury off." - Jullien
"I'm always in a foul minsid mood. Haven't you noticed the way the crews I deal with all leave sweets on my desk like frightened villagers making an offering to a vengeful god?" - Jullien
"I know I'm asking a lot, but rein down your tongue. Stop playing hard to get along with. And remember that the individual you're about to meet can melt your brain, and has about as much prick tolerance as you do." - Trajen
"Duly noted. May I ask how many live here have that special talent?" - Jullien
"Since it only takes one having a bad hair day to kill you, do you need a precise head count?" - Trajen
"More than a handful, then?" - Jullien
"Admit it, Tray. You have to love him. It's like having a giant toddler around with an autoresponder set to Annoy." - Ushara
"Have you met yourself? There's no way you're going to obey anyone and not fight whatever they say. Just because they said it, you won't do it. You're hardwired for rebellion. You can't help yourself." - Ushara, about Jullien
Yet he hurt everyone he was around. Sooner or later. There was something deeply rooted inside him that was suicidal and nuclear. It was a daily struggle to keep it leashed. It'd always been disastrous those times when it escaped his tight control. For everyone near him. He'd always been self-destructive. A complete and utter prick. - Jullien's thoughts about himself
"Do I need a rolled-up newspaper to slap you with?" - Trajen
"Good luck finding one around here. Besides, you smack my nose, it'll just compel me to piss on your leg for spite." - Jullien
"Can you please muzzle him?" - Trajen
"I'm the one who tried to keep him at home. You brought him here, against my wishes. I told you not to have him in public. You know as well as I do that he completely flunked home-training. What were you thinking?" - Ushara
"I never thought I'd live long enough to rule. God's truth to that. Every day I woke up alive in that palace, I counted it as a miracle." - Jullien
"My parents orphaned me the day I was born. I never expected much from them, and sadly, they never failed to meet my low expectations." - Jullien
"Yeah, go ahead and laugh, asshole. We're all big and brave, til you realize that cockroach has wings and can fly." - Jullien, discussing his Canting of a cockroach
"Hence my choice for your Canting. I thought it apropos. And I knew if anyone could appreciate the ironic humor behind it, it would be you, Dagger Ixur. Bug up the ass of all your enemies." - Trajen
"And friends." - Thraix
"Are you crazy?" - Thraix
"Yeah, I am. Has there ever been any doubt?" - Jullien
"Any idea how to fix this?" - Ushara
"Not really. But let me try something catastrophically stupid." - Jullien
"Catastrophically? Oh, I like that word coming out of the mouth of my babies' daddy. Any final words you wish me to convey to your children?" - Ushara
"That I hope they inherit their mother's intelligence." - Jullien
Bet that guy who was so looking forward to coming back as a prince in his next life and got reincarnated as me is feeling seriously gipped right about now. - Jullien's thoughts
"Put no one at your back unless you want them to drive a knife through it." - Jullien
"Am I not supposed to like you?" - Ushara
"You'd be the first in history to do so." - Jullien
"An engine's an engine. If I can't figure it out, I can always do some research. They tell me that these little doodad symbol things represent letters that when you put them together, they make cohesive words and form complex sentences. Those sentences form comprehensible paragraphs that can then explain how those ships and engines work, and miraculously tell you all kinds of things you don't know. And that each one of those large, flying objects around us have these incredible items you can access called services manuals that will actually tell you how they operate, and how to repair them when they don't. It's all dark, soul-sucking magic, really." - Jullien
Jullien set the universe's record for the shortest fuse - as most likely to agitate any situation, anytime, anywhere.
"Most beings regret being around me, sooner rather than later." - Jullien
"I'm not going to defend my family - they've never protected me, as that lovely death warrant clearly demonstrates. And I'm not into making excuses for the actions I was forced to take while trying to stay alive in an extremely hostile environment, where every breath I drew was likely to be my last, and everyone around me was plotting my death, dismemberment, and betrayal. If you want to kill me, do it. You're in luck. I'm in too much pain today to fight for a life I never really wanted, anyway." - Jullien
"I'm particularly skilled at pissing off everyone around me. Quite exceptional at it, point of fact. Been known to do so by merely entering a room." - Jullien
That was how [Jullien] was. Never sought credit for any good deed, because if he was ever caught doing one, it was met with extreme suspicion from everyone around him.
"Given how many individuals passionately hate my guts, most of them very close relatives in line for my throne, you honestly think I'd trust anyone to touch something with mechanical moving parts and fuel injection systems that could horrendously explode with me trapped inside it, and it look like an easy accident where I'm burned beyond all recognition? Really?" - Jullien
"Paranoid much?" - Ushara
"Second most hated being on all of Andaria. Most hated prince in the entire history of the Triosan empire - that's not my boasting, they actually took polls and wrote articles about it. I won. Hands down. No contest. Ten straight years on Andaria. And let me reiterate that my own grandmother murdered my grandfather during a PMS hissy fit, the majority of her family, my twin brother when we were only five - or at least tried to, and my mother slaughtered a number of her own siblings, including my doppelganger... Paranoia, insomnia, and an overly high degree of extreme flexibility and peripheral vision are the only reasons I'm still breathing. Go me." - Jullien
"We all have problems. As my father said, I made my bed and since my favorite pastime was wallowing in my sheets, he hoped I enjoyed the ones I'd picked out... For the record? They really chafe. Especially my tender places. And don't even ask about the super wedgie they give me when I walk." - Jullien
"How can you make light of it?" - Ushara
"What good is crying? I tried it once. Made my throat sore and gave me a head cold. Pissed off my grandmother to no end who decided there was never any real reason to cry unless she personally gave me one. After that precious, life-altering ass-beating, I decided it was easier to hold it in." - Jullien
"I had no positive role models growing up, and therefore I react badly in most situations. Tend to act out in extreme, self destructive ways. In short, I'm an abrasive, unlovable asshole with antisocial tendencies. It's all my fault that I ended up like this. I accept it fully. I don't blame my parents for how I turned out. There's no need. Since they weren't there during my childhood, I don't see how they're responsible for my adulthood. I'm the one who raised me and I sucked at it. Never could keep a pet for long either. They always bonded to someone else and left me. Even my pet fish jumped from their bowls to commit suicide rather than suffer my boorish company." - Jullien
"I've already been judged and sentenced, and the one thing I learned from my family is that once a verdict is rendered, there's no mercy from it." - Jullien
"I was suicidal at one time. Didn't care if they killed me or not. A part of me was hoping they'd succeed. The only reason I care now is I'm not about to let some asshole become a millionaire off my back because I laid down and let them cut my throat. They take me in, bastard's gonna earn it and I'm taking an equal amount of his ass to the grave with me. I'm a contrary prick that way." - Jullien
"What have they done to you that you can't trust anyone? For anything?" - Ushara
"You really don't want me to answer that." - Jullien
"I know I'm an unwanted piece of shit and I accept that. But then you came around and you show me glimpses of a world I can't be a part of. You show me what it's like to be normal, and then when reality returns it's just that much harder for me to deal with. I'd rather you beat and insult me like everyone else does, than do this anymore. It's far too cruel." - Jullien
Happy endings didn't come to eton Anatoles. And they damn sure didn't come to creatures who'd lived a life like his. - Jullien's thoughts
"Well, since I don't know who Dumbass is, I shall be more than happy to stand in for him or her, provided a more suitable moniker is chosen for me. I'm rather fond of Shit-for-Brains, myself. Shithead for short." - Jullien
"Honestly, I was trying not to be so stupid this time. You see how it turned out. Perhaps next time I should try for an all-out moron. That might actually work for me." - Jullien
"If you're late for work tomorrow, I'm going to kick your ass." - Sheila
"Well, it's been a good fifteen minutes since my last ass-kicking. I should be due a new one by morning." - Jullien
"I understand the need to strike the first blow before they do. I certainly don't hold it against her, and I know she doesn't mean it. Besides my ego isn't that fragile. It would require that I actually possess one." - Jullien
"What's your damage?" - Sheila
"Head injury at birth. Lack of parental love and support. Oppositional defiant disorder. And a blatant disregard for authority figures, particularly those in uniform and with badges. But that's not why I'm here." - Jullien
"I had my nervous breakdown. Licked my wounds. Now I'm back. The one thing you can thank my psychotic grandmother and aunt for - I learned to snap back fast from the brink of insanity. I had to. I take the hard hit. Withdraw inward, catch my breath, get fucking pissed and come back fighting twice as hard, with renewed vigor and determination. That's what I do. It's why I'm still here and alive while the rest of my family is in their graves. Bitches rang my bell - their mistake. They let me up off the ground. Now, I'm answering the door. They want a piece of me? They're going to earn it." - Jullien
"Nice... Glaring at me?" - Jullien
"With a lot of hatred." - Vasili
"Awesome. I'm not as paranoid as I thought." - Jullien
"Then you need to go and find another female to shame. My grastiya is the vice admiral of this Nation and the well respected widow of a former admiral. I will not have her reputation tarnished by being linked to an Outcast comet slag such as you. Do you understand?" - Ushara's grandmother
"I understand, Ger Tarra. Forgive me for my dishonor to your family." - Jullien
"As I said, I am guilty of a lot of instigation when my Fuck-It List kicks in. My temper and mouth are not my friends. I have a bad tendency to walk around half-cocked on my best day. And that was one of my particularly stellar evenings. If there is a right or wrong thing to do in any given situation, my innate tendency is always for whatever is going to get me into the most trouble." - Jullien
"No one's ever said that to you before, have they?" - Ushara, discussing the words "I love you."
"No. No, they have not." - Jullien
"Never?" - Ushara
"Only that they'd love for me to die. That they'd love for me to contract a venereal disease and rot. But no. The I love you, period. Only been said around me to others. Closest I've ever personally come to it was a priest telling me once that he hoped the gods loved me because no one else ever could. So you'll have to forgive me if I'm a bit skeptical that you alone possess this incredible supernatural ability to love that which is unlovable. By anyone else." - Jullien
"It's official Take A Psycho To Work Day. Didn't you get the memo?" - Jullien, when asked why he was at work with Ushara
"Besides, I'm not that complicated a creature. When pushed, I shove. When confronted, I attack. I rabidly protect what few things I care about. And I strive to be left alone... Simple." - Jullien
"Yet if there's trouble to be found, you sniff it out like pigs on truffles. And hump it like a dog on a fresh leg." - Trajen
"That I do." - Jullien
"I don't betray anyone who doesn't slash my throat first. But if you come for me, all bets are off. No one kills me and lives." - Jullien
From the moment of his birth, he'd felt like he'd been standing in the middle of a killing field - with enemies rushing him from every side, trying to stab him through his heart. Many times they'd succeeded and he'd stumbled to the ground, but through it all, he'd forced himself to climb back to his feet. No matter how hard the blow, no matter how much he'd wanted to lie down and die, he'd stubbornly refused to fall. Indurari. - About Jullien
"You think you're cute?" - Kirill
"Adorably precious." - Jullien
"I'm a contentious asshole with severe dysfunctional relationship issues that lead me to extreme forms of antagonism and aggression against my peers in most social situations." - Jullien
"I'm not a saint or a martyr. I'm not about to forgive them. I'm going to exact my revenge. One my own. But that's between us. After all, I'm a contentious bastard - the son of all bastards, for that matter, and an eton Anatole. We don't let shit go. Ever." - Jullien
"How do you do that?" - Ushara
"Do what?" - Jullien
" Remain perfectly calm and composed when you're walking into the den of your enemies..." - Ushara
"Simple. You and Vas walk in with the fear that you're going to say or do something wrong and they won't like you anymore. Or that you'll screw up and lose their respect. I know going in they hate my guts. There's absoluately nothing I could say or do, including set fire to a baby or kick a puppy, to make them hate me any worse. So I have no ground to lose where they're concerned. It's actually quite liberating to know there's no way to make them like me. An act of the gods themselves could not swing them in my favor. So I have no pressure or fear of any kind. There is nothing I can do to fuck up. Anything I say or do will be socially unacceptable, talked about in the worst way imaginable, and misinterpreted by all. Might as well have fun with it and embrace the whole King of All Bastards they're going to accuse me of, anyway." - Jullien
"Let me tell you one thing I've learned about dealing with my husband. Think of him like the giant lorina in the wild, sleeping happily in his cave. He might stick his head up to watch you walk by, but so long as you don't get his full attention, he won't attack. Whatever you do, for the sake of the gods, don't throw a rock at him. Because once you do come under his full attention, he's going straight for your jugular." - Ushara, about Jullien
"Does he ever speak?" - Vasili's teacher
"Those who don't know me think I'm quiet. Those who do, wish I was." - Jullien
"Beg pardon?" - Vasili's teacher
"I typically practice excessive sarcasm since random throat punches tend to get me arrested in most systems." - Jullien
"And that's why we don't let him talk much. Have a nice day. Gah... I can't believe Shara lets you out in public without supervision." - Davel
"What? Nobody bled, died, or was bashed in the head during that meeting. My social skills are vastly improving, especially given the mood I'm in." - Jullien
His ability to handle and push people never failed to impress her. Of course, he normally pushed them over the edge and past the point of homicide. But when he chose to be diplomatic and caring... There were few better at it. - Ushara's thoughts about Jullien
"You are warm and sweet. Intelligent and protective... a little psychotically so. You give without asking. No male has ever made me feel as loved or needed as you do. What is there not to adore?" - Ushara
"I'm belligerent. Crass. Ill-tempered. Quick-tempered. And half of your family, and the entirety of mine want to kill me. That's just for starters. And as you noted, I'm psychotic." - Jullien
"You know what your problem is?" - Payne
"Yeah. The fact that I like the way that vein throbs in your temple when my mouth sets your fury off." - Jullien
"I'm always in a foul minsid mood. Haven't you noticed the way the crews I deal with all leave sweets on my desk like frightened villagers making an offering to a vengeful god?" - Jullien
"I know I'm asking a lot, but rein down your tongue. Stop playing hard to get along with. And remember that the individual you're about to meet can melt your brain, and has about as much prick tolerance as you do." - Trajen
"Duly noted. May I ask how many live here have that special talent?" - Jullien
"Since it only takes one having a bad hair day to kill you, do you need a precise head count?" - Trajen
"More than a handful, then?" - Jullien
"Admit it, Tray. You have to love him. It's like having a giant toddler around with an autoresponder set to Annoy." - Ushara
"Have you met yourself? There's no way you're going to obey anyone and not fight whatever they say. Just because they said it, you won't do it. You're hardwired for rebellion. You can't help yourself." - Ushara, about Jullien
Yet he hurt everyone he was around. Sooner or later. There was something deeply rooted inside him that was suicidal and nuclear. It was a daily struggle to keep it leashed. It'd always been disastrous those times when it escaped his tight control. For everyone near him. He'd always been self-destructive. A complete and utter prick. - Jullien's thoughts about himself
"Do I need a rolled-up newspaper to slap you with?" - Trajen
"Good luck finding one around here. Besides, you smack my nose, it'll just compel me to piss on your leg for spite." - Jullien
"Can you please muzzle him?" - Trajen
"I'm the one who tried to keep him at home. You brought him here, against my wishes. I told you not to have him in public. You know as well as I do that he completely flunked home-training. What were you thinking?" - Ushara
"I never thought I'd live long enough to rule. God's truth to that. Every day I woke up alive in that palace, I counted it as a miracle." - Jullien
"My parents orphaned me the day I was born. I never expected much from them, and sadly, they never failed to meet my low expectations." - Jullien
"Yeah, go ahead and laugh, asshole. We're all big and brave, til you realize that cockroach has wings and can fly." - Jullien, discussing his Canting of a cockroach
"Hence my choice for your Canting. I thought it apropos. And I knew if anyone could appreciate the ironic humor behind it, it would be you, Dagger Ixur. Bug up the ass of all your enemies." - Trajen
"And friends." - Thraix
"Are you crazy?" - Thraix
"Yeah, I am. Has there ever been any doubt?" - Jullien
"Any idea how to fix this?" - Ushara
"Not really. But let me try something catastrophically stupid." - Jullien
"Catastrophically? Oh, I like that word coming out of the mouth of my babies' daddy. Any final words you wish me to convey to your children?" - Ushara
"That I hope they inherit their mother's intelligence." - Jullien
Bet that guy who was so looking forward to coming back as a prince in his next life and got reincarnated as me is feeling seriously gipped right about now. - Jullien's thoughts
"After I grabbed the bomb, I realized that I was holding it with my left hand. Luckily, I had time to change it before it went off." - Jullien
"Really? That's your main concern?" - Ushara
"Hey now, don't mock. Had I not switched hands before detonation, I would have lost both the ring and my tattoo. That would have been a tragedy." - Jullien
"Damn it, Jullien! You're such an asshole!" - Thraix
"My name isn't Damn-it-Jullien, you know? I'm really tired of everyone calling me that all the time." - Jullien
"No, but it should have been. And Asshole should be your surname. You sure that's not what Anatole means in Andarion? They almost sound the same." - Thraix
"Ha. Ha." - Jullien
"I think you broke your head, Andarion. Probably got brain damage." - Thraix
"Like anyone could ever tell the difference." - Jullien
"While you lay upstairs in your drugged stupor under Galene's tender loving care, Matarra, with your guards to watch over and protect you from harm in your opulent luxury, this was where I was brutalized in my youth. Every time you ran to your mother, Tylie, and told her stories about how sorry I was as an Androkyn, or how I embarrassed you and Andaria, this is where I was sent to be reeducated and punished. When you, Father, refused to come get me or demanded that i go to rehab over the drugs my family was injecting in me against my will, this was where I usually ended up. Thank you all for my happy childhood memories. Really. They've only been surpassed by the diligent love and care you've given me these last few years after you exiled me and allowed the Thrill-Kill warrant on my life to stand uncontested and every assassin in the Nine Worlds to hunt me to the corners of the universe, where I've had absolutely no amnesty or haven whatsoever." - Jullien
"I should have killed you when you were born!" - Eriadne
"Probably. Would have saved us both a lot of trouble." - Jullien
"I would have made you the greatest tadar Andaria has ever known!" - Eriadne
"I'd have rather you just left me alone, bitch. But I do have to thank you for one gift. The ability to move and function while I'm in excruciating pain." - Jullien
All quotes belong to Sherrilyn Kenyon from Born of Legend and other League novels.