“What Foundling does isn’t thinking outside the box so much as stealing the box and hitting her opponents with it until they stop moving.”
– Extract from “A Commentary on the Uncivil Wars”, by Juniper of the Red Moon Clan”
― So You Want to Be a Villain?
– Extract from “A Commentary on the Uncivil Wars”, by Juniper of the Red Moon Clan”
― So You Want to Be a Villain?
“There are concepts that cannot be imagined but can be named. Having received a name, they change, flow into a different entity, and cease to correspond to the name, and then they can be given another, different name, and this process—the spellbinding process of creation—is infinite: this is the word that names it, and this is the word that signifies. A concept as an organism, and text as the universe.”
― Vita Nostra
― Vita Nostra
“It would have been a lovely thing, he thought, to dance with that one until one of them died of it.”
― A Practical Guide to Evil V
― A Practical Guide to Evil V
“Now kneel, fools, and witness my ascension to GODHOOD!”
– Last words of Dread Empress Sinistra IV, the Erroneous”
― So You Want to Be a Villain?
– Last words of Dread Empress Sinistra IV, the Erroneous”
― So You Want to Be a Villain?
“To live is to be vulnerable. A thin membrane of a soap bubble separates one from impenetrable hell. Ice on the road. The unlucky division of an aging cell. A child picks up a pill from the floor. Words stick to each other, line up, obedient to the great harmony of speech...”
― Vita Nostra
― Vita Nostra
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