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“It is gratifying,” said Learned Edmund. “The world is often sorely unappreciative of quality indexing.”
― The Wonder Engine
― The Wonder Engine
“ If I were a man, I would fight him.
If she were a man, no one would force Kania to try to bear child after child. If I were a man, I would not be the next in line to be married if he kills her. If we were men… She stared at her fingers curled into the dirt. It did not matter. They were not and the history of the world was written in women’s wombs and women’s blood and she would never be allowed to change it.
Rage shivered through her, a rage that seemed like it could topple the halls of heaven, then vanished under the knowledge of her own helplessness. Rage was only useful if you were allowed to do anything with it.”
― Nettle & Bone
If she were a man, no one would force Kania to try to bear child after child. If I were a man, I would not be the next in line to be married if he kills her. If we were men… She stared at her fingers curled into the dirt. It did not matter. They were not and the history of the world was written in women’s wombs and women’s blood and she would never be allowed to change it.
Rage shivered through her, a rage that seemed like it could topple the halls of heaven, then vanished under the knowledge of her own helplessness. Rage was only useful if you were allowed to do anything with it.”
― Nettle & Bone
“You are not a failure, you know,” he said, “simply because you can’t endure something unendurable.”
― Paladin's Strength
― Paladin's Strength
“You have been released to the Temple for discipline, you are forbidden from carrying arms in the presence of the Archon for a year and a day, Judge Guicciard wants a personal apology, and I am supposed to dock your pay to cover the statue, but since I don't actually pay you, we'll just let that bit pass." She waved a hand. "Consider yourself disciplined. No dessert for a week. Etc.”
― Paladin's Grace
― Paladin's Grace
“Look, if you can't laugh about the homicidal fits that make you a menace to society, what's even the point?”
― Paladin's Grace
― Paladin's Grace
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