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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“They both offered Winter crisp salutes, but the expression on their faces made her uncomfortable. It was the look of Women meeting a legend. When did I become a legend?”
― Django Wexler, The Price of Valour

“Being part of an attack was a strange thing, Marcus had always thought. It was like being a component in a larger organism, something that could live or die, stand or flee, all on its own and independent of the will of the men who made it up. Sometimes it drove you onward, into the face of what seemed like certain death, in spite of every instinct screaming for flight. Other times, you could feel it falling apart, turning at bay like a whipped dog, hunkering down or turning tail to run.”
― 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

“When we weigh up the balance sheet of our lives, it's always easy to see the costs. People we've hurt, mistakes we've made. But the other side of the balance can be harder to make out. How do you measure what didn't happen? Friends who didn't die because of something you did, wars that didn't start, cities that never burned. That has to count for something, doesn't it?"

"You can't know what would have happened," Winter said. "Maybe everyone would have been better off."

"It's possible," Abraham said placidly. "But you can't know that for certain, either. Out of all the possible worlds, we can't know if this is the best, the worst, or somewhere in between. But it's one we've got.”
― Django Wexler, The Infernal Battalion

“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

“Marcus, whose appreciation of wine began and ended with what color it was, nodded uncertainly.”
― Django Wexler, The Thousand Names

“Q: How does a girl with tusks go down on you? A: Very carefully, and with commendable attention to detail.”
― Django Wexler, How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying