Suzy

“One of the grimmer realizations of Sarkis’s youth had been the discovery that knowing you were being an ass did not actually stop you from continuing to be an ass.”
― T. Kingfisher, Swordheart

“Maybe he's up to something, maybe he'ś not really crazy after all. Perhaps he just got fed up acting normal and decided to act crazy instead, and they locked him up because he went too far.”
― Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory

“I am the servant of the sword,” he said. “I obey the will of the—great god, woman, put on some clothes!”
― T. Kingfisher, Swordheart

“The madder people. A lot of them seem to be leaders of countries or religions or armies. The real loonies.”
― Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory