Assail Quotes

“Reaching out for companionship – for a human touch – is not a mistake. Withholding such a thing is the mistake.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Assail

“He knew that music spoke to the emotions, not the intellect. The heart was where people truly lived, and died. He also knew that this magic that music and poetry were said to possess was the power to touch that heart.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Assail

“Women are terrifying to men,’ he whispered, ‘because they can break them with the simplest word or briefest glance.’

Now she smiled. ‘Not if they care for them.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Assail

“No one expects the past to reach out and destroy the present – or the future.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Assail

“The heart was where people truly lived, and died.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Assail

“You may not believe me when I say this … but I understand what you are doing. We in Lether believe that everything has a price, but we are not fools. We understand that the most important things are paid for with blood. And so I salute you. You have found something more precious than life … I can only hope to find a thing so precious myself one day.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Assail