Yariv

“It’s how I do things. First, despair. Then hope.”
― K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

“Speechifying was never my forte – one on one I can generally figure out what I need to do to get someone moving in my direction, but pool enough of them together and the sheer mass of idiocy becomes immobile.”
― Daniel Polansky, Tomorrow, the Killing

“The fact is, the more you look for something, the likelier you are to find it, even if it isn't actually there; Sooner or later, if you look hard enough, you'll find something.
The trick is then to interpret what you've found as what you were looking for.”
― K.J. Parker

“He looked at me the way the male spider gazes at his beloved. He knows he’s going to get eaten afterwards, but it’ll be worth it. “Deal,” he said.”
― K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City