Seth Baird

“The weapon is poison,' Kit said. 'I believe that the cause we carry it in is just, but that will not protect you. It is not only death to those whose skin it cuts; it holds a deeper violence within it. If you carry it-just that, carry it and nothing more-the poison will still affect you. In time, you will grow ill from it, and eventually, inevitably, it will kill you.'

'It's a sword, Kit,' Marcus said, lifting the green scabbard from it's place. They're all like that.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law

“Love is noble,” the magistra said. “And so we wrap it around all the things we think perhaps aren’t so noble in hopes no one will see what they really are. Fear. Anger. Shame.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law

“The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Always the ones quickest to insults got the thinnest skin, for some reason.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred