Irem

“You are not the same lad that lost his practice sword at the Spring Fair.”
― John Gwynne, Malice

“You have good friends about you,’ Marrock said. ‘Loyal.”
― John Gwynne, Malice

“There’s your television—sixty inches of sexy plasma. There’s your Netflix, always ready to welcome you with some rewarmed sitcom laughter, and your stack of Blu-rays and your bookcase full of well-worn paperbacks. There’s Facebook and Snapchat and Instagram to keep you connected, to show you all the places you’ve yet to visit and people you’ve yet to meet. You’ve got a thousand worlds at your fingertips, a thousand lives, and before you know it, home is just the place you go to be somewhere else, someone else, until morning comes and your dreams end and you have to be you again.”
― Daniel Barnett, Nightfall

“You know about the frog and the pot of boiling water?” “That’s a myth. They hop out. They always hop out.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Naturalist