Doug

“Belief that one was hard to fool was the one quality shared by all suckers.”
― Daryl Gregory, Spoonbenders

“Safety is an illusion, as is faith without temptation. We’re imperfect, unlike the gods, but in that imperfection we may yet make them jealous.”
― Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings

“... so that any time anyone looked up, expecting out of habit to see Shola, they caught his eye, and shared a moment with him, and the hole in the world was known and acknowledged.”
― Nick Harkaway, Tigerman

“And they served me a lot of free drinks. So I drank a little more than I should have, maybe. So some of what happened I don’t remember too well. But there was a lot of shouting.”

“You must have killed somebody,” said Smith.

“Yes, I think I did,” Lord Eyrdway agreed.”
― Kage Baker, The Anvil of the World