Ian Lewis Quotes

“I bested other men, excelling both mentally and physically where they fell short. In a month, I'll begin my year-long study in the City
Archives after which I'll be given the power to deputize. Then
the city will be mine to protect.”
― Ian Lewis, From Legend

“I bested other men, excelling both mentally and physically where they fell short. In a month, I'll begin my year-long study in the City Archives after which I'll be given the power to deputize. Then the city will be mine to protect.”
― Ian Lewis, From Legend

“The Reeve. I've seen him only once before. I watched him leap off the edge of Brükenfeld Hall like he was daring gravity to flinch. It was magnificent. This man who had complete mastery of himself, this force who reckons with the evil-doer and the law-breaker is here in my midst.”
― Ian Lewis, From Legend

“Self-imposed or otherwise, he was saddled with the idea that he was his father's son as much as he wanted to spurn it. There were glories to which he should aspire as well as failures to never forgive, but he didn't know whether the tangled mess of it was strangling him or weaving itself into something coherent.”
― Ian Lewis, From Legend

“Logan considered there was no longer any black and white, only the gray and infinite shades between. He was lost among those shifting waves of circumstance, driven by ideologies that weren't his own. He’d capitulated to them, bowed down; he'd served some vacant, hollow intuition of his will as if it had been an original thought. Now he realized it was only his father's madness which had guided him.”
― Ian Lewis, From Legend

“His resolve had withered to something weak and tenuous. The fabric of his mind felt stretched, pulled apart by conflicting desires. He was a sinking stone lost in the sea. There was nothing left to do but drift aimlessly to the bottom where he'd rest, lost and forgotten.”
― Ian Lewis, From Legend

“I'm not stable.”
― Ian Lewis, From Legend

“The opulence was maddening; the sheer waste of materials in creating a city that was no less impregnable, no less permanent than a small settlement was almost laughable. For the doors had been left to rot, and Silas Belden’s original intent had been lost to the calming cadence of complacency.”
― Ian Lewis, From Legend

“The animal tang of combat was in her mouth, that unavoidable rush of death flirtation and promise of discomfort washing over her body tight and coiled for the expenditure of all her energy. Whether it came at her in twos or threes, the setup was enough to make one swoon at the potential peril of it all: a neighborhood overrun by madmen, the meek cowering, and the desperate incursion of a few brave souls of which she was one.”
― Ian Lewis, Villains

“Man-child” was a fitting nickname. There was nothing complex about the way Wilbert spoke, thought, or behaved. Without sufficient stimulus, he was content to simply shut down and glaze over, amused with nothing to fill his head at all except for the world passing by him in ways he could never understand. He’d only come alive when enraged, and then his mind would flood itself crimson awash in the stark and utter urge to destroy.”
― Ian Lewis, Villains

“You’d think I’d feel sorry for him and his sad existence, but I don’t. There just aren’t enough scruples there, not enough redeeming material in his makeup. The way he used to beat his ex-wife still echoes in his head. I can hear the meaty smack of his fists like it’s happening right in front of me.”
― Ian Lewis, Promptly Written: Volume 1

“I've lurked for centuries without blinking, walked without rest for longer, understanding everything and nothing. All things stand to fall. I can outlast you. Wear you down.”
― Ian Lewis, Promptly Written: Volume 1

“Tell our prey to despair of us like we despair of them.”
― Ian Lewis, Promptly Written: Volume 1

“I’m not what you’d call a cerebral person. I act on impulse most of the time, failing to consider the consequences of my actions. There are more sensible people than I who are forever cursed to clean up after my messes.”
― Ian Lewis, Promptly Written: Volume 1

“It doesn't matter how deep you bury it. It will always find its way back, clawing its way up to the surface with splintered, dirt-lined nails, ravenous for whatever part of your mind you'll let it have.”
― Ian Lewis, Promptly Written: Volume 2

“I’ve been haunting the ones I love.”
― Ian Lewis, The Blinding End

“A painting without color. A race with no runners. Crops that never yield. Muscles without strength. A song without melody. A game that can’t be won. A party with no celebrants. A match that doesn’t spark. I am all of these.”
― Ian Lewis, The Blinding End

“I’m choking on my own nothingness.”
― Ian Lewis, The Blinding End