Nick Oliveri > Quotes

“She learned to despise the smallest and the weakest, and most of all, herself.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Demons are not just people or figures or ideas—they're impulses that live inside you, searching ceaselessly for a way out.”
― Nick Oliveri, Monsters in My Mind

“The king drinks wine, and the general eats fat duck all day. And yet, they want me to take money from the woman who pours her being into a simple pot?”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“I love you and always have. The great heavens and the ultimatum of the universe have driven me straight to you…. And I love you. I love you so hopelessly and boundlessly and powerlessly. I love you existentially. I love you physically. I love freely. I love you as if my soul was stamped for your custody before it ever entered the damned world.”
― Nick Oliveri

“He had sinewy arms that were often wrapped in fine silk robes. He liked closed-toed, black leather sandals with hard soles that echoed with each step.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Only one thing to see, and yet, so many possible outcomes.”
― Nick Oliveri, Becoming the Conjurer

“I want them…to feel the same pain I do. The same that I am.”
― Nick Oliveri

“Golden. Like the product of Starfall, I could only hope to touch my vision of her. A missed connection perpetually. I felt like I was alive, only to look for her around every corner, hoping but knowing she would never appear. And she never appeared. And she never would appear, either, not after I killed her.”
― Nick Oliveri, Her

“Stop thinking and start writing.”
― Nick Oliveri, Monsters in My Mind

“But power was a comical thing that humans held and God laughed at.”
― Nick Oliveri

“Sometimes people just go their separate ways. But, it doesn't mean you need to destroy yourself and others just to get back at an indifferent universe.”
― Nick Oliveri, Her

“I touched peaks impossible.”
― Nick Oliveri

“The artist’s life was pointless without the freedom to create.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“As pragmatic as Kitan was in his daily means of execution, he had an inner drive that was starry-eyed and childlike.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“How could someone know exactly who they are?”
― Nick Oliveri, Monsters in My Mind

“He was to be the sun that would ripen the crowd for carving skin instead of wooden ornaments.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Most nobility were satiated to the point of apathy.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Even a king must submit to great art.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“His lack of will eroded his deep features and took from him everything he loved or that people loved about him. A zombie had more drive. A vegetable had more insight. A rock had more resolve.”
― Nick Oliveri

“...a tall, statuesque man with slicked-back hair and reptilian eyes set in a gaunt face. His drooping cheeks sat just above his wormy-looking mustache, and pale, spidery fingers poked out of his black robes...”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Yes, my path was a rocky one, but now I can look down on it from the hill with a smile—that is the ether to fill you.”
― Nick Oliveri, A Boy Just Like Me

“As soon as a person was born, they were shackled to much and commanded by many.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“And, if you want it, it's all yours.”
― Nick Oliveri

“You can stay and the world stays with you—right with you.”
― Nick Oliveri

“The greatest feeling in the world to me is triumph.”
― Nick Oliveri, A Boy Just Like Me

“... and the throne he sat on was only made of velvet and wood. Velvet could be ripped and wood could be burned.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“The best things in life were non-sustentive, the things you couldn’t eat, touch, or see that could strum the Promethean filament within.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Let it rain missiles like tears from my eyes. That is what those explosions will be. Fiery explosions that run off my face and spill onto the ground. Let it rain. Let it rain.”
― Nick Oliveri, A Genocide Too Small

“Really, it's newsletters and direct followings that are always the main determinant for winning anyway.”
― Nick Oliveri, Monsters in My Mind

“Not all soldiers wield spears.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer