Top 30 Frank Beddor Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan’s contingency plan.”

— Frank Beddor

2. “Off with their heads!”

— Frank Beddor

3. “Lesson number 1b in Bibwit’s carefully planned curriculum: For most of the universe’s inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; it is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive – let alone survive with dignity- is heroic. To soldier through the days in a wake of failure is the corageous act of many. To rule benevolently, a queen should be able to enter into the feelings of those less fortunate than herself.”

— Frank Beddor

4. “The scars of war are not always visible.”

— Frank Beddor

5. “You can’t spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.”

— Frank Beddor

6. “I’m stronger than you are, Redd.”

— Frank Beddor

7. “I’m feeling generous today. You get to live.”

— Frank Beddor

8. “Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, ‘If you lived here, you’d be home by now,’ did little to fill vacancies.”

— Frank Beddor

9. “Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.”

— Frank Beddor

10. “Most of life is unbearable. It’s unbearable but we bear it.”

— Frank Beddor

11. “For no matter what the world, men who deal in headwear are men to be trusted above any other.”

— Frank Beddor

12. “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

13. “Whatever power I have is nothing if I can’t use it to keep safe those who mean the most to me.”

— Frank Beddor

14. “After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn’t uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.”

— Frank Beddor

15. “I think I speak for all of us when I say, “Huh?”

— Frank Beddor

16. “Alice of Wonderland was stranded on Earth.”

— Frank Beddor

17. “Ah, ah, no buts. You’ve just returned to us and it is too soon to express whatever doubts you undoubtedly have with that most cowardly of words, that qualifier of qualifiers, but.”

— Frank Beddor

18. “Boaderland: Where women could be given away by their husbands to pay debts, and young, rowdy gallants from Wonderland, fresh from the rigors of formal education, came to indulge themselvs in roving pleasure tents; where maps were useless because the nation consisted wholly of nomadic camps, settlements, towns and cities, and a visitor might find the country’s capital, Boarderton, situated in the cool sgadows of the Glyph Cliffs one day but spread out along Fortune Bay the next.”

— Frank Beddor

19. “Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath’s sacrifice was. He didn’t beg for his life. He didn’t embarrasss himself with groveling or sniveling, or appeals to her nomexistent mercy.”

— Frank Beddor

20. “He talked to himself because there weren’t many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.”

— Frank Beddor

21. “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

22. “Are you Lewis Carroll?” Redd asked him.”

— Frank Beddor

23. “Well now,” the scholar went on, “I’m just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn’t grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd’s tyranny.”

— Frank Beddor

24. “It had been an annoyingly peacful time in Boarderland, Blister cranky and despressed because he hadn’t filled anyone with pus for nearly an enitre lunar cycle.”

— Frank Beddor

25. “Having been away from you offical duties,” Arch said as the Miller’s hand lowered to his side, “you might not have hearc, but I’ve developed a weapon capable of destroying all of Boaderland, Wonderland, Morgavia, Unterlan and who knows what else. I call it WILMA, which stands for Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation. It also happens to be the name of one of my former wives, who had to be put down on account of her feisty temper.”

— Frank Beddor

26. “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

27. “Without a twich of exertion, Redd sealed his lips with glue. “Who wants to kill him?” The Cat raised a paw. Siren and Alistare raised their hands. “Mmmmmm mmm mmm,” protested Jack.”

— Frank Beddor

28. “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

29. “Redd shed caution like an outgrown skin.”

— Frank Beddor

30. “I miss tarty tarts.”

— Frank Beddor

31. “I’d had a cold that day and wasn’t as powerful as usual, otherwise Alyss would never have done so well,” Redd said as, in the alcove, the final image dissolved. She blew at the cloud and it drifted out into the crypt. “Has a malicious ruler ever suffered more? I think not.”

— Frank Beddor

32. “But like many young men who grow up as privileged as Jack of Diamonds, he didn’t suspect his own ignorance.”

— Frank Beddor

33. “You can’t imagine everything because you don’t know everything there is to imagine.”

— Frank Beddor

34. “Even a future monarch doesn’t always want to do what she is supposed to do.”

— Frank Beddor