Alissa

“I’m glad your self-righteousness has given you some exercise, but you forget: we are not such a tidy, reasonable, and humane race. Our thoughts don’t stand in grammatical rows, our hearts don’t draw equations, our consciences don’t have the benefit of historians whispering the answers to us.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

“These were bankers we were talking about, and I owed taxes. They’d hunt me to the ends of the earth!”
― Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key

“It’s tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.”
― Janny Wurts, To Ride Hell’s Chasm

“The grievous burden of remorse shouted shame, that a criminally blind ideology could reject the promise of birthright, then mangle the exuberant vigour of life, designed by nature to celebrate only creative abundance.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial