Django Wexler > Quotes

“Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?”
― Django Wexler, The Forbidden Library

“You got rid of him?”
“For the moment,” Winter said. “Nothing confuses an officer like violently agreeing with him.”
― Django Wexler, The Thousand Names

“Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to.”
― Django Wexler, The Forbidden Library

“Three men can keep a secret only once two of them are at the bottom of the river.”
― Django Wexler, The Price of Valor

“He expects me turn up for the inspection, glance through all of this, and then scurry back to Ohnlei to get on with my life. Marcus gave a rueful smile. More fool him. He doesn't know I haven't got a life.”
― Django Wexler, The Shadow Throne

“To follow the analogy, as a Reader, you're not part of the story, you just insert yourself into it for a while.”
― Django Wexler, The Forbidden Library

“The name meant "Angel of Victory," which Jaffa supposed was appropriate enough. The Divine Hand himself had started the fashion for taking the names of angels when he'd called himself Vale-dan-Rahksa, the Angel of Vengeance. At the rate the Council was expanding, there would soon be a serious shortage of angels. Jaffa wondered what would happen when they ran out of manly, intimidating names and were reduced to naming themselves after the Angel of Sisterly Affection or the Angel of Small Crafts.”
― Django Wexler, The Thousand Names

“If this works, it' going to be one of those things that get written down in the history books. He wondered, briefly, what he should say. Oh well. I can always think of something clever later to tell the historians.
"Come on!" He chopped downward, toward the enemy. "Let's get the bastards!”
― Django Wexler, The Shadow Throne

“Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?”
― Django Wexler, The Forbidden Library

“Never underestimate what can be accomplished by a little bacon at the right moment,”
― Django Wexler, The Guns of Empire

“When they join up, they know I might have to spend their lives, but they trust that I’ll get a good price.”
― Django Wexler, The Guns of Empire

“I think the general’s job is harder than the painter’s; canvas doesn’t fight back, after all.”
― Django Wexler, The Thousand Names

“Is that what love is supposed to look like? Wanting the best for another person, regardless of what it means for yourself?”
― Django Wexler, The Price of Valor

“But you...I felt that you would not be used. Would not allow yourself to be used. You deserve the opportunity to make your own choices, to walk your own path. Indeed, I believe you will do so, regardless of what Ending, Geryon, or anyone else intends. You must do what you believe to be right.”
― Django Wexler, The Mad Apprentice

“But there was never any arguing with Janus, least of all from the other end of a flik-flik line.”
― Django Wexler, The Price of Valor

“Can you be haunted by someone who isn’t dead?”
― Django Wexler, The Thousand Names

“I am aware that my connection with sanity is a little tenuous." Maybe a little more than even I thought, if the notebooks are to be believed. "But it's not all bad. The thing about being crazy is nobody expects it.”
― Django Wexler, Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me

“At this particular moment, fuck subtlety. I cast fireball, motherfucker.”
― Django Wexler, How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

“Never fuck anyone you would be upset having to kill, that’s my new motto.1”
― Django Wexler, How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

“A certain understanding passed between them, the shared feeling of men tasked with keeping a superior from absentmindedly killing himself. Marcus suppressed a smile.”
― Django Wexler, The Shadow Throne

“You can’t eat goat,” Buck said. “It ain’t natural. If God had wanted us to eat goat, he wouldn’t’ve made it taste like shit.”
― Django Wexler, The Thousand Names

“I feel her eyes on me like a shaft of sunlight, warming my skin wherever it touches.”
― Django Wexler, Ship of Smoke and Steel

“Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning?”
― Django Wexler, The Forbidden Library

“That’s right, door. I’m the Dark fucking Lord. Don’t fuck with me.”
― Django Wexler, How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

“It was always good to know that things in the field really were the way the officers had said they’d be, if only because this so rarely turned out to be the case.”
― Django Wexler, The Thousand Names

“He'd sometimes thought that the War College was really a thinly disguised royal subsidy to the local tavern industry.”
― Django Wexler, The Thousand Names

“Sooner or later, Captain, we all must take something on faith.”
― Django Wexler, The Shadow Throne

“While I hate to cast aspersions on the humble army cutters, their knowledge tends toward the practical, and their approach is often... blunt. If the problem cannot be removed from the patient with a bone saw, they are often at a loss.”
― Django Wexler, The Thousand Names

“You’re not very loyal,” Isaac said as Alice took his hand. “Loyalty,” Ashes sniffed, “is for dogs. Cats have better sense.”
― Django Wexler, The Palace of Glass

“Raesinia wondered if Maurisk, in the barricaded offices of the Hotel Ancerre, repeated it to himself. Janus is coming.”
― Django Wexler, The Price of Valor