Ariel

“We cannot save our clients from themselves. Someday in your career, Elayne, you will represent a man—almost certainly a man—who wants you to help him barter his soul to a demon for three wishes. When that day comes you may refuse his business, you may try to change his mind, but in the end if hell he wants, hell he will achieve.”
― Max Gladstone, Last First Snow

“There’s no story that’s the start of itself.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

“I do not make the rules [. . .] This annoys me, and so I comfort myself by breaking them”
― Ellen Kushner, The Privilege of the Sword

“Your son," she said, "needs a father."
"He needs a world less broken than this. All the sons need that. And the daughters, too."
"Is there such a world?"
"There must be.”
― Max Gladstone, Last First Snow