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“And my whiskey is wearing off. Stupid body. Metabolizing and neutralizing poisons as if I didn’t dump ’em in there on purpose.” He looked up. “You think I could cut out my liver and stay drunk forever?”
― The Lost Metal
― The Lost Metal
“He had mistakenly assumed that liking something soft would make him soft. A common failing among men who wished to appear strong. It was not weakness to relax. By being so afraid of it, they gave simple things power over them.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“A thing taken by force would always be a pale shadow of something given freely.”
― The Fragile Threads of Power
― The Fragile Threads of Power
“An oath could be broken, but a promise? A promise stood as long as you were still trying. A promise understood that sometimes your best wasn’t enough. A promise cried with you when all went to Damnation. A promise came to help when you could barely stand. Because a promise knew that sometimes, being there was all you could offer.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“You are normal,” Drehy said. “Or rather, nobody is normal. Normal doesn’t exist. So if we slavishly try to dress ourselves to imitate it, all we’re really doing is becoming a different kind of abnormal—a miserable kind.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
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