jurizprudent

“I have a theory," Tain Hu said, "regarding your attention to birds."
"Oh?"
"It's the only tongue of your homeland that you can still hear spoken aloud.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

“Hunger, Red—to sate a hunger or to stoke it, to feel hunger as a furnace, to trace its edges like teeth—is this a thing you, singly, know? Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that it might split you open, break a new thing out? Sometimes I think that’s what I have instead of friends.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“This is the truth. You will know because it hurts.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

“Every moment is an edict spoken by its past. The past is the real tyranny.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant