Sign in with Facebook
Alex
https://www.goodreads.com/alexgr2198
“Without any outward sign or motion, in the wreckage of herself, she donned her armor, made it firm around her heart. Raise her mask: a cold discipline, a steel beneath her skin.
Grow comfortable, she told herself. It will never come off.”
― The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Grow comfortable, she told herself. It will never come off.”
― The Traitor Baru Cormorant
“Understood what the books and the generals always repeated: that armies did not kill each other, they broke each other, that the day would be won when one army believed it could not survive. A matter of deception, of conviction, of lies made true through performance. Like everything else.”
― The Traitor Baru Cormorant
― The Traitor Baru Cormorant
“She moved and spoke decisively, sometimes with a certain impatience, as if the world dragged two steps behind her will and she found the friction grating.”
― The Traitor Baru Cormorant
― The Traitor Baru Cormorant
“I thought you specialised in dishonest finesse?"
"I also do a brisk trade in putting knives to peoples' throats and shouting at them," said Locke.”
― Red Seas Under Red Skies
"I also do a brisk trade in putting knives to peoples' throats and shouting at them," said Locke.”
― Red Seas Under Red Skies
“The Hierarchic Qualm: The sword kills. But the arm moves the sword. Is the arm to blame for murder? No. The mind moves the arm. Is the mind to blame? No. The mind has sworn an oath to duty, and that duty moves the mind, as written by the Throne. So it is that a servant of the Throne is blameless.”
― The Traitor Baru Cormorant
― The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Alex’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alex’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,776 books
|
64 friends
392 books
|
81 friends
949 books
|
111 friends
286 books
|
31 friends
92 books
|
13 friends
86 books
|
8 friends
47 books
|
10 friends
74 books
|
9 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Alex
Lists liked by Alex
