Ink Mage Quotes

“Plans are what people make when Fate is sneaking up behind them,”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“You think your muscles hurt? Try a blade in the belly.”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“That was life, wasn’t it? You spend so much of it trying to find happiness, and then when you get some, you worry every day something is going to take it away.”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“Don’t you feel it? History is thrusting us into the path of … something. I don’t know. Really, I’m not sure how to explain, but can’t you sense it? The world is being tossed into chaos, and there are just us select few who see it, who can do something, and if we don’t … well, I’m not sure the gods will forgive us. That we would be offered this chance and then cower. I can’t believe it. I won’t. We must rise to the occasion.”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“You’ve come to the wrong shop for mercy.”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“At first, the pinpricks felt like hot fly bites down the soft white skin over her spine and along her shoulders. The first time Rina flinched, the mage had admonished her harshly. She hadn’t moved again.”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“Alem had not realized prostitutes were so dangerous.”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“He felt oddly that he was being accused of something, but the feeling passed and was replaced with the peculiar honor one feels when trusted with a secret. Strange how honors and burdens are so often confused.”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“question”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“The fortified watchtower overlooking the Eastern Sea was officially called Ferrigan’s Tower for the engineer who’d built it, but to the miserable soldiers stationed there, the post was known as the Snow Devil’s Asshole.”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“been simple fear before was now a cold feeling of dread as he realized the battle and the slaughter in the streets of Klaar was only the beginning. For the survivors there would”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“survivors? Torture them? Or maybe a stable boy was too unimportant to even be noticed. Maybe he’d wake up in the morning, muck out the stalls, feed and water the horses as usual, the new masters no different from the old. But he”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“part of the battle, before things had gone from bad to worse. Alem imagined himself in Tosh’s position, with death coming”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“Okay, now get out of the way. I’ve got gypsies with me.”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“One’s name should always arrive slightly ahead of one’s person,”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage

“He heard the hiss of an arrow followed by the thud of a body hitting the ground. They’d hit one of the riders behind him. More arrows cut through the air, one so close to his ear he felt the fletching tickle his lobe.”
― Victor Gischler, Ink Mage