Top 35 Christopher Buehlman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We just don’t deserve dogs, do we?”

— Christopher Buehlman

2. “When listening for danger, one must never mistake silence for safety.”

— Christopher Buehlman

3. “Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions.”

— Christopher Buehlman

4. “But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death of loss.”

— Christopher Buehlman

5. “The dead shouldn’t cry, not even the lesser dead.”

— Christopher Buehlman

6. “A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.”

— Christopher Buehlman

7. “How easily the paint of civilization peels off with a little bad weather.”

— Christopher Buehlman

8. “The world has become a playground of idiots and zealots, where the ever-shrinking centre of reasonable men must work harder and harder to keep the lights on and the bombs from going off.”

— Christopher Buehlman

9. “There comes a time when loneliness is stronger than fear.”

— Christopher Buehlman

10. “You’d probably rather have a milk shake than a quart of blood, too, so we’ll have to agree to disagree.”

— Christopher Buehlman

11. “We often live next to monsters unawares.”

— Christopher Buehlman

12. “I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it’s already been through a gentleman.”

— Christopher Buehlman

13. “One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it’s not okay.”

— Christopher Buehlman

14. “Modern life makes so many of us strangely empty.”

— Christopher Buehlman

15. “Well, I do what I say. Which is why I don’t say much.”

— Christopher Buehlman

16. “May laughter keep us young and malice keep us rich.”

— Christopher Buehlman

17. “Spear had picked up her lost hand and run into the forest like she knew a sewer-on of hands whose shop closed soon.”

— Christopher Buehlman

18. “No crown sits so sure that a knife in the dark may not topple it.”

— Christopher Buehlman

19. “How did Heaven come into all of this? Heaven was life, not death. Heaven was a woman holding your head in the crook of her arm and looking down at you. Heaven was a warm hand on your cheek and the smell of soup with garlic on the fire.”

— Christopher Buehlman

20. “Only the strong, the rich, and the dying think truth is a necessity; the rest of us know it for a luxury.”

— Christopher Buehlman

21. “Some righteous men and women yet held faith, but they were scattered so far that none could see the other’s light, and it seemed the darkness had no end.”

— Christopher Buehlman

22. “Thomas looked at her standing with her delicate arms and legs and thought how odd it was that children were small, and that they found this normal. He could not remember being small. What must he look like to her, standing so far above her, holding that murderous hammer? What did it feel like to know you lived or died at the whim of the giants around you?”

— Christopher Buehlman

23. “It’s sad, but the world’s made of sadness. if you hadn’t noticed, great gray bricks of it and mortared all together with pain and obligation.”

— Christopher Buehlman

24. “I’m going to take you someplace dark and damp where good people don’t go. I’m going to introduce you to monsters. Real ones. I’m going to tell you stories about hurting people, and if you like those stories, it means you’re bad.”

— Christopher Buehlman

25. “I’m a man who will always choose to know.”

— Christopher Buehlman

26. “It’s always the big, thick wankers saying “don’t lie,” isn’t it? Only the strong, the rich and the dying think truth is a necessity. The rest of us know it for a luxury.”

— Christopher Buehlman

27. “I won’t be your dog, but if you’re half the wolf I think you are, you’ve found a fox to run with.”

— Christopher Buehlman

28. “And at precisely that moment a sparrow in the tree above Thomas shat in his.”

— Christopher Buehlman

29. “When Delphine saw the knight’s eyes soften, she reached her small hand out, and he took it in his large one. And she led him down to the stream, and, with its cool water, washed his head and his feet, and helped him wash the anger from his heart.”

— Christopher Buehlman

30. “The surest way to make one love you is to hurt them.”

— Christopher Buehlman

31. “Thomas had never been so afraid. I can’t I can’t I can’t, he thought, even as he drove his legs forward through the muck to meet it.”

— Christopher Buehlman

32. “When it croaked out of my mouth, I meant it as statement of fact, but looking back, it sounded perfectly weird, ambiguous, and off-putting, so it was just the right thing.”

— Christopher Buehlman

33. “Weapons!” Malk cried, but he had none. I drew my dagger, feeling I’d do just as well to wave my manhood at it, had that not already shrunk itself as far in my body as it could go.”

— Christopher Buehlman

34. “A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, “We live here. We live here.”

— Christopher Buehlman

35. “We know too much about the gods to hope for their benevolence, do we not?”

— Christopher Buehlman

36. “He let himself love her because he knew she would not love him back.”

— Christopher Buehlman

37. “Monarchy is a bad system because, no matter how smart you are, you can still squirt a moron out of your plumbing. Maybe you get lucky and your son or daughter is at least half as smart as you – what about your grandchild? Probably a knob, and when they inherit the throne, everything you built falls to shyte.”

— Christopher Buehlman

38. “I was trained in lock-picking, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, voice-throwing, trap-making, trap-finding, and not a half-bad archer, fiddler, and knife-fighter besides.”

— Christopher Buehlman