Robert Gill

“I felt like a peacock. A very unprepared peacock. No. A turkey dressed as a peacock. A turkey that might end up on a dinner table because, once everyone saw through the ruse of it being a peacock, they’d want to eat it. Great. Now I was strangely hungry.”
― F.T. Lukens, So This Is Ever After

“Charmain disliked blood almost as much as she disliked earthworms.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“When a member of the community and a human procreate (it is possible, though even more difficult than for the community in general, and they already have a low fertility rate), the baby is never human. The other species always breeds true—and I don’t just mean that the child inherits those traits. There is no human genetic matter at all. All the research I’ve read seems to indicate that it’s a result of magic—that since community population is so much lower than human, it’s magic’s way of ensuring the other species aren’t bred out of existence.”
― Louisa Masters, Demons Do It Better

“How much coffee has he had today?” I murmur to Noah, who shakes his head vehemently. “We don’t ask those sorts of questions,” he hisses.”
― Louisa Masters, Sorcerers Always Satisfy