Ari Marmell > Quotes

“It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is "run like hell.”
― Ari Marmell, Thief's Covenant

“Creation is quite impressionable. Everyone leaves a trail of their actions. And everyone, however wise, however powerful, however immortal, makes mistakes.
All it requires is the patience to wait for them. And you'll find no one, in all Creation, quite so patient as Death.”
― Ari Marmell, Darksiders: The Abomination Vault

“The resulting sound wasn't quite a squawk, wasn't quite a yelp, wasn't quite a gasp. As best she could describe it, it sounded like an angry chicken slapping a puppy with a fish.”
― Ari Marmell, Lost Covenant

“Olgun! Wake up!"
Her mind was filled with a sense of self-righteous and
vaguely drowsy protest.
"Sure you weren't, she needled at him. You were just
practicing snoring, so you'd be sure to get it right later on,
yes?"
Olgun's response very strongly resembled an indignant
snort.”
― Ari Marmell

“Your sarcasm is unwelcome here, Horseman," the Crowfather rasped at him. "Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.”
― Ari Marmell, Darksiders: The Abomination Vault

“Can I ask one more question?”
Cateline repressed a sigh. “One more. Then you need to eat your supper.”
“If Davillon has so many gods, how come not one of them got off his butt and saved my mommy and daddy?!”
― Ari Marmell, Thief's Covenant

“The front door of the Flippant Witch gave a series of loud clicks and swung inward. Renard Lambert, his blue-and-purple finery resembling a plum in the twitching lanterns, practically hurled himself through the open doorway
“Widdershins!” he called loudly, cape flowing behind him, “I—gaaack!” He ducked, barely in time to avoid the carafe that shattered loudly against the wall just behind his head. The tinkling of broken glass, a dangerous entry chime indeed, sounded around him.
“Oh,” Genevieve said, her tone only vaguely contrite. “It's just your friend. Sorry, Renard.”
“Sorry? Sorry?! What the hell were you—ah. Um, hello, ah, Widdershins."
Widdershins, who had lurched to her feet as the door opened, was suddenly and forcibly reminded by Renard's stunned stare that Genevieve had disrobed her in order to get at the rapier wound. Blushing as furiously as a nun in a brothel, she ducked behind her blonde-haired friend and groped desperately for her shirt.
“Didn't mean to take your head off, Renard,” Genevieve said, mainly to distract him. “But you rather startled us.”
“Quite understandable,” the popinjay responded absently, his eyes flickering madly as he fought to locate some safe place to put them.”
― Ari Marmell, Thief's Covenant

“Olgun?, she asked, her tone again little more than a
breath.
"Dogs?"
A pause, an answer.
"Ah. And do you think you should maybe do something
about that?"
Self-satisfied gloating.
"You already did." It wasn't a question.
Another affirmative.
Widdershins sighed.
"I hope you didn't hurt them."
Olgun sent a flash of horror running through her, so strong
that she felt herself shudder.
"All right, I'm sorry!, she hissed. I know you like dogs. I
know you wouldn't hurt them! I wasn't thinking!"
The god sniffed haughtily.”
― Ari Marmell, Thief's Covenant

“Wow. Every time I think I've seen the far horizon of her lunacy, she sails right on over it...”
― Ari Marmell, Hot Lead, Cold Iron

“I felt like I’d just discovered my last big glass of milk had actually come from a bull.”
― Ari Marmell, Hallow Point

“Genevieve hunched her shoulders against the storm of sound and fury and struggled to imagine a worse sort of hell. Widdershins, of course, seemed perfectly happy, but Widdershins was weird.”
― Ari Marmell, Thief's Covenant

“Why do half the people I meet try to hit me with something? Yeah, yeah, I know, you don't even have to say it. "Because, the other half don't know me that well yet.”
― Ari Marmell, Lost Covenant

“If even one of you takes so much as a single shot at that crow", he told them, his tone matter-of-fact, "then after you are dead, I will summon your spirits to provide me with the names of your siblings, your parents, and your children. And I will animate your corpses to murder them with your own hands".”
― Ari Marmell, Darksiders: The Abomination Vault

“And if, behind closed eyes, Cerris saw a face other than hers, a face so slightly younger, gazing at him sadly across a gulf of lost years and broken promises... Well, it would never hurt her if she never knew.”
― Ari Marmell, The Warlord's Legacy

“She'd pushed it down, crushed it beneath the weight of stubborn determination, but still it haunted her at night, when such terrors shamble from their dens to torment innocent insomniacs.”
― Ari Marmell, Thief's Covenant

“Corvis smiled around a mouthful of venison, trying to catch the juices before they rolled down his chin. "I think you're being just a bit paranoid, Davro. Legends and superstition."
"You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils.”
― Ari Marmell, The Conqueror's Shadow

“She looked to be maybe fifteen, give or take a year or two; still somewhere in that nether realm between childhood and womanhood. Her hair, to judge by the few unsoiled strands he could see, was an earthy brown, and her eyes shone with a blue-green hue so liquid that he almost expected to see waves. A small, ever-so-slightly upturned nose sat in the center of a slender face.”
― Ari Marmell, Thief's Covenant

“If even one of you takes so much as a single shot at that crow, then after you are dead, I will summon your spirits to provide me with the names of your siblings, your parents, and your children. And I will animate your corpses to murder them with your own cold hands.”
― Ari Marmell, Darksiders: The Abomination Vault

“Well…Shit.” They were, as last words go, not terribly inspired. But”
― Ari Marmell, Thief's Covenant

“gryphon,”
― Ari Marmell, The Warlord's Legacy

“Alexandre's smile vanished once more. "What have I told you about profanity?"
The girl sighed, though she couldn't help but smile as the pedantic change of tone. "A true lady never curses," she parroted back at him.
"And do we know why?"
Adrienne blinked. He'd never gotten into it, and she'd assumed it was another of the endlessly labyrithine laws of etiquette. "Umm, because it's not ladylike?" she ventured.
"No. Because a true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at the very least the restraint, to express herself without resorting to such base vocabulary.”
― Ari Marmell, Thief's Covenant

“What in Urza’s name”
― Ari Marmell, Agents of Artifice

“That's the funny thing about stealing money---it always seems to be the rich people who have the most of it.”
― Ari Marmell, Lost Covenant

“Just as it had done with the hills, the mountains, and the swamps, Ravnica had annexed and absorbed the world’s lakes without so much as a hiccup.”
― Ari Marmell, Agents of Artifice

“The celebration of Whatever the Hell Lurias Had to Celebrate was in full swing,”
― Ari Marmell, Agents of Artifice