Yariv

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

“The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes?”
― Andrew Miller, Pure

“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

“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