Brendan

“But as they say in Daellan, sometimes life is like a sewer flood: it stinks, but it only gets worse if you go against the current. And this party is headed upstream without a paddle.”
― J. Zachary Pike, Son of a Liche

“Asa took her arm, gently. “They can’t talk,” he told her. She shook her head as her friends steered her back toward the access bridge. “No, it talked. I heard it.” Note to self: shut up.”
― Martha Wells, Compulsory

“It was always the same story, she thought tiredly. Just small, angry men, clinging to fading power. They feared living without privilege because they’d abused it against others, and were now terrified of suffering the same cruelty they’d routinely dealt out.”
― Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

“Shane wondered if there was a term for feeling guilty about not feeling sufficiently guilty.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith