Zamil Akhtar > Quotes

“We’re all good men until we’re pushed to the edge. Then you either die a good man, or the good man in you dies.”
― Zamil Akhtar, Gunmetal Gods

“Until now, I’d been living wrong. I’d been clinging to peace, when war was eternal. It was the inevitable, and you either won or watched everyone you love choke on blood.”
― Zamil Akhtar, Gunmetal Gods

“I’d never met a Ruthenian who didn’t like to scowl.”
― Zamil Akhtar, Gunmetal Gods

“Faith runs out as gold does. And nothing replenishes both like victory.”
― Zamil Akhtar, Gunmetal Gods

“Give me a war song, or give me wings.”
― Zamil Akhtar, Gunmetal Gods

“It is worship. It is fanaa, the annihilation of the self, so that you become nothing. So that your soul itself burns as fire does, in the worship of Lat.”
― Zamil Akhtar, Gunmetal Gods

“You are afraid.” It softened its tone. “I am only a nasnas, you need not fear me.”
― Zamil Akhtar, Gunmetal Gods

“Wisdom is veiled from the youth the way the stars are veiled in the morning.”
― Zamil Akhtar, Dark Drinker: A Dark Fantasy Epic