Lucius Quotes

“Do not disagree with each other, enrich the soldiers, despise everyone else.”

“As you wish, of course." Lucius lowered the volume on an old record player, which spun a warped vinyl disk that wailed unfamiliar music, scratchy and whiny, like cats fighting. Or a coffin with rusty hinges opening and closing over and over again in a deserted mausoleum. "Do you like Croatian folk?" heasked, seeing my interest. "It reminds me of home.""I prefer normal music.""Ah, yes, your MTV with all the bumping and grinding. Like a shot of raging adolescent hormones administered via television. I'm not averse.”

“Not at all do I trust augurs, who enrich the ears of others, so that they can enrich their own homes with gold.”

“Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.”

“It's not about blood,"says Lucius. "It's about who you shareyour life with.Where you feelyou really belong.”

“I like pink."Lucius sniffed. "It's just red's sorry, weak cousin.”

“Lucius didn’t believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame.”

“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”

“Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.”