Jane Spencer

“The gaps are part of the set, too," she'd said. "You can't replace them. I know how each piece was broken or lost. I broke a plate myself when I was nine. Now I'm an immortal part of the pattern. I'll take my gaps, thank you.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

“Every important journey I have undertaken has begun the same: with crushed sheets, a balled pillow, flung open books, and not a wink of sleep.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

“History is a love letter to tyrants written in the blood of the overrun, the forgotten, the expunged!”
― Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx

“She had to rediscover fear and, tucked somewhere inside that fear, life.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends