“Part of why I am what I am is all the bad choices my mom and dad made, and if they’d done differently, they’d still have made some mistakes somewhere along the line, and those would be part of me instead.”
― Leviathan Falls
― Leviathan Falls
“There was no better way to seem trustworthy than to be liked by a dog, and there was no better way to convince a dog to like you than bribery.”
― Tiamat's Wrath
― Tiamat's Wrath
“Because we’re human, and humans are mean, independent monkeys that reached their greatness by killing every other species of hominid that looked at us funny.”
― Persepolis Rising
― Persepolis Rising
“Growing older was a falling away of everything that didn’t matter. And a deepening appreciation of all the parts that were important enough to stay.”
― Tiamat's Wrath
― Tiamat's Wrath
“I didn’t need another cat. At this point in my brilliant career as an itinerant educator I could barely afford to feed myself. But then, no one ever needs a cat these days. That’s not why we have cats. We have cats because they amuse us and because otherwise our clothes would lack the texture only cat hair can provide.”
― Starter Villain
― Starter Villain
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