Sascha Stronach > Quotes

“Fucking prophecy. She’d seen enough of history not to trust prophets. Even the good ones weren’t more accurate than a coin toss. Throw enough shit at the wall, and some of it would stick. She’d refused to sleep with one ratty man five hundred years ago and was still paying for it. Woe is me, my dick goeth unsucked, it must be the actual end of the world.”
― Sascha Stronach, The Dawnhounds

“Tea was, as her father had taught her, the panacea for all ills. Too cold? Tea. Too hot? Tea. Feeling like your job is going nowhere, and your life is empty and hollow? Lots and lots of tea. Drown yourself in it; crawl into a towering fortress of teacups beneath the sweet sea and never leave.”
― Sascha Stronach, The Dawnhounds

“The only people who talk about honor are those who are already ahead—they want you to fight fair because that’s how they win.”
― Sascha Stronach, The Dawnhounds

“Once they’d figured out that Yat wasn’t a threat, the crew of the Kopek had started treating her like a small cat or a pet bird: something adorable that would kill you if it could, but since it can’t, it’s hilarious.”
― Sascha Stronach, The Dawnhounds

“When everybody knows a certain part of town needs a heavier hand, that hand becomes a fist, and then everybody acts surprised when shit gets broken.”
― Sascha Stronach, The Dawnhounds

“Yat hung in the moment, the sudden silence richer and more vibrant than any song could be, as though the world had drawn in a breath and she could do nothing but stand and wait for it to exhale a hurricane.”
― Sascha Stronach, The Dawnhounds

“I’m not playing your game. You want my help? I give you instead the strongest curse of my people: yeah nah, I’m good.”
― Sascha Stronach, The Sunforge

“Somebody needs to be strong, and it’s always her.”
― Sascha Stronach, The Sunforge

“Depending on who you asked, he was either the best or worst crook in the Empire. She’d known him long enough to realize it was a little bit of both: he had a sharp mind and a big heart, and he was too poor to afford either of them.”
― Sascha Stronach, The Sunforge