The Conjurer Quotes

“The artist’s life was pointless without the freedom to create.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“She learned to despise the smallest and the weakest, and most of all, herself.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“He had sinewy arms that were often wrapped in fine silk robes. He liked closed-toed, black leather sandals with hard soles that echoed with each step.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“The king drinks wine, and the general eats fat duck all day. And yet, they want me to take money from the woman who pours her being into a simple pot?”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“... and the throne he sat on was only made of velvet and wood. Velvet could be ripped and wood could be burned.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“I don't care what I am. I care where I am- and that's with you.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“I could drown in a sea of applause. But without you, it's still just be drowning.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“The best things in life were non-sustentive, the things you couldn’t eat, touch, or see that could strum the Promethean filament within.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“As soon as a person was born, they were shackled to much and commanded by many.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“He was to be the sun that would ripen the crowd for carving skin instead of wooden ornaments.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“The Conjurer would do anything to stay true to his work.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“A man whose only value derived from his distinction from the norm. But I will have him cornered in due time.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“As pragmatic as Kitan was in his daily means of execution, he had an inner drive that was starry-eyed and childlike.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“The shadiest meetings sometimes take place with the brightest of views.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“She sculpted the pot from the vision she held in her mind and the small cut within her soul that could only be bandaged by her creative expression.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“From a distance, Mikalla was a flash of blistering color, more like a walking lightning bolt than a mere human.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“...a tall, statuesque man with slicked-back hair and reptilian eyes set in a gaunt face. His drooping cheeks sat just above his wormy-looking mustache, and pale, spidery fingers poked out of his black robes...”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Not all soldiers wield spears.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“His breaths were silent, his gaze was steady, and his eyes were hollow.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Most nobility were satiated to the point of apathy.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Even a king must submit to great art.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“I could drown in a sea of applause, but without you, it’d still just be drowning.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Beware the stories you're told.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“He was given too much agency in a fallen world.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Like water poured through a grate, he could be identified somewhere underneath and between the lines of his own dialogue.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“And to have a purpose, to be willing to die for a cause—was that the highest form of living?”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“You know what snakes are loyal to, son? Their stomachs.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Some soldiers wear silk robes, have pearly white teeth, and engage in handshakes instead of bloodshed.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“While she was running as fast as her tiny feet could carry her, an outstretched leg from behind one of the columns in the hall popped out right in front of her. Before her infantile brain could stop or think to evade it, she fell headfirst onto the stone floor, with only her wrist to break her fall at the last moment.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“From his vantage point on the deck, the commoners were ants.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer