“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
“We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful.”
― Black Fire
― Black Fire
“Jeremiah has come to see life as a serious of motions he must enact towards its conclusion.”
― The Angel and the Apothecary
― The Angel and the Apothecary
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