“They don't eat vegetables, or fruit," the wizard continued. "They deem plucking your food off a tree as cowardly. Consequently, a great many of them have scurvy.”
― Kings of the Wyld
― Kings of the Wyld
“But life, Clay knew, didn’t work that way. It wasn’t a circle; you didn’t go round and round again. It was an arc, its course as inexorable as the sun’s trek across the sky, destined at its highest, brightest moment to begin its fall.”
― Kings of the Wyld
― Kings of the Wyld
“In stories there were marches without weeping foot sores, swordfights without septic wounds that killed heroes in their sleep. In stories, when a giant was slain, it toppled thunderously to the ground. In reality, a giant died much the same way anything else did: screaming and shitting itself.”
― Kings of the Wyld
― Kings of the Wyld
“Ah, yes, I do have erectile dysfunction by the throat!” He gave a derisive snort and curled his fingers around the imaginary neck of … well, Clay let that image slide right on out of mind.”
― Kings of the Wyld
― Kings of the Wyld
“And so it goes, thought Clay. Life was funny, and fickle, and often cruel. Sometimes the unworthy went on living, while those who deserved better were lost.”
― Kings of the Wyld
― Kings of the Wyld
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