Nicholas Woode-Smith > Quotes

“My mother taught me to never make deals with demons”
“Your mother sounds very uncreative...”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith

“Greed could be manipulated far more easily than generosity.”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“The darkness is like a scar on my brain. I can’t remove it. I can’t forget the words. Ever. They are always there. Burning, cindering, screaming. Like a choir of dead men branded on my skull.”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“The war in the heavens did not relent. Jets sent rockets into wyverns. Wyverns responded with bolts of electricity that ripped metal into flaming debris. Valkyries did battle with choppers and gryphons. And the catastrophic magics of the maddest of mages did not relent across the sky.”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“You think you are the god of death? You are simple. A jackal, driven by instinct. But you are trapped and isolated. A petulant canine convinced of his own superiority. You think yourself powerful because you were born powerful. But you never chose the darkness. You never had to invent evil. I did.”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“There was always a monster. Somewhere in the world. Always something that you couldn’t kill. And no matter how much you wanted to protect those you loved, there was always something that could take them away.”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“Often, when fighting monsters, it was important to compartmentalise. Take a big problem and cut it into smaller tasks. Quite literally, sometimes.”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“Why did I slay other people’s monsters?
Why did I take this path?
Perhaps...
It was because someone had to.
From Blood Hunter”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith

“Everyone deserved to be remembered. To have their name said over and over. To be loved, even after they were gone.”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“That bastard had his fingers in so many pies that we may as well ban pies now.”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“Joy should never have its limits.”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“We try to nudge existence one way and it kicks back and runs in the other direction. The thing to do wasn’t to strangle it and leash it but let it run wild. To learn its nature. To go with the flow. Life wasn’t perfect. Far from it. But more evil came from trying to change it than anything else.”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“The world isn’t fair. It has no rules. No karma. No cosmic justice. There is only chaos. Chaos and some fools pushing against it. Some fools fighting for some order and reason in a world of fuck ups. And I am one of those fools.”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“I’d spat in the eyes of wraiths and twisted spectres into becoming my lightbulbs. I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“And what is a tomb without its golden trinkets?”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“true good is found in the smiles of children.”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“To be good is to do good,”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm

“How does a normal person become a monster?”
― Nicholas Woode-Smith, Shadow Realm