Top 38 Quotes About Niko
#1. Don't let him upset you," Niko told the four softly. "He's old and he's frightened."
"You're as old as him, and you aren't scared of us," Briar pointed out.
Niko glared at him. "Thank you so much," he retorted waspishly.
Tamora Pierce
#2. What we witness at the fea is not just a celebration of the multiplicity of modernities but also, and more importantly, a critical commentary on local structures of inequality that take for granted that both tradition and modernity are the prerogatives of the high ranking and wealthy.
Niko Besnier
#3. Grumbling incoherently, I fished in my jacket pocket for sunglasses. "Fear not, night dweller," Niko said with mocking gravity. "It is merely the sun, something you would see more often if you would roll out of bed before late afternoon.
Rob Thurman
#4. Nice guy. Salt of the earth. The stick up his ass is just a bonus." "Let us not make light of the rectally challenged." Niko disposed of the mug with disdain, wiping his hand thoroughly on a towel afterward. "The condition is no doubt congenital. Completely beyond his control.
Rob Thurman
#5. Behind me, I heard my apprentice growl, All your base are belong to us, Niko.
Kevin Hearne
#6. Everything good in there, T? Niko quipped. You need backup or anything? Bag of marshmallows to roast over that little campfire you just started?
Lara Adrian
#7. Someone remind me why I didn't want to be an accountant when I grew up," Brock drawled.
Niko chuckled. "Because accountants don't get to make things go boom.
Lara Adrian
#8. The way of the nomad is to accept everything as it comes: there is no anticipation of better days, no longing for the unrequited, no despair for loss.
D.J. Niko
#9. Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.
Janet Morris
#10. Sometimes what we desire the most can change who we are, and it's up to us to decide if that's for better or worse. You must learn to control those desires so that you're always on the right path, even if that means never attaining or holding on to the thing you want most." Niko's
Dannika Dark
#11. Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in perfect balance; love of man and gods, and mercy transcending all. If war ever wore a more humane face, this one would make it so.
Janet Morris
#13. Niko knew death like a sister - she was his true partner in the phenomenal world.
Janet Morris
#14. No, her I brought back because ... " Niko lifted his chin toward the moon. "She's magical."
"I get that, if by 'magical' you mean 'hot.'"
"I also mean magical.
Molly Ringle
#15. You would quit the Order for her? Niko asked, the youngest only behind Dante, and a warrior who relished his duty perhaps even more than Dante had himself.
I would quit breathing for her, if she asked it of me.
Lara Adrian
#16. Freedom cannot be labeled nor won nor envied. Only when one doesn't realize what freedom is, is one truly free.
D.J. Niko
#17. Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.
Janet Morris
#18. Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of it in your veins. The pound of it in your head. The volume of it in a human body; the sickness when you've spilled it.
Janet Morris
#19. Renata reached out for the gun nearest to her and a full magazine of rounds. She had the weapon loaded, locked and ready for action in three seconds flat. Niko had never seen anything sexier in his life.
Lara Adrian
#20. Steve Job's tombstone is flatter than anybody else's.
Niko Stoifberg
#21. Niko and his women will be the death of all the Stepsons yet.
Janet Morris
#22. Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher
Rob Thurman
#23. She'd eat you alive." "She would, would she?" Niko said dryly. "Seriously, Nik, she's dangerous, a predator." This voice-of-reason shit, it had to stop. It was a strain on my resources. His lip twitched. "And what, little brother, do you think I am?" Damn. He had me there.
Rob Thurman
#24. Humanity is defined by its struggles, not doomed by them. It is in the way we endure those struggles that we transcend our lower nature and enter a higher realm.
D.J. Niko
#25. Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.
Rob Thurman
#26. What did Mira show your attacker last week? he asked, desperate to turn the attention away from himself now. Yakut shrugged. Only he can know. The girl has no knowledge of what her eyes reflect. Thank God for that. Niko hated to think of the education she might have just gotten otherwise.
Lara Adrian
#27. This leaf has fallen from its mother and withered. Yet the tree does not mourn the loss. While barren, it stands tall, ready to bear the burden of winter, for it knows that through hardship comes renewal.
D.J. Niko
#28. I glanced heavenward and asked for help to stop acting like a complete idiot around Niko. If this was how my ancestors responded to sexy men, it was a wonder we'd ever propagated.
Rebecca Chastain
#29. And then I saw Niko. He had sunk down to his knees and had his face in his hands.
I went over to him.
"You did it," I said. "You saved us."
"Yeah," he moaned, "but I lost her.
Emmy Laybourne
#30. I came for the cause. Since I could not help, at least don't let me remember that I hindered it. I've learned how to manage on the ship; it will be nothing, after all this. Goodbye, Niko. You have made me a truer philosopher. Go with God.
Mary Renault
#31. We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.
Rob Thurman
#32. Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.
Tamora Pierce
#33. If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased.
Janet Morris
#34. She resisted the urge to run, only prey ran [and] Niko had no intention on becoming prey
Kayti Nika Raet
#35. And who died and made you boss?" But I knew a lost cause when I saw it and was already pulling my hair back with nimble fingers.
Niko slapped a shoulder holster against my chest. "No one. Like all truly great dictators, I seized that power myself. Now finish up. We leave in five minutes.
Rob Thurman
#36. Death is a doorway, Niko, that leads to an adventure greater than any you have ever known.
Janet Morris
#37. Niko, you're halfway to where you need to go. It's the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you, Hero. Or do you want to be just a memory, a cult somewhere, with people sacrificing horses to your name?
Janet Morris
#38. It's an unfortunate fact of life," Niko said with grimly amused resignation. "Where there are graveyards, there are flesh-eating revenants. Where there are cars, there are car salesmen.
Rob Thurman
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