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

“Superstition though does tend to have a sharp end, and I didn’t want to find myself impaled on it.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key

“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

“The rebuke came, keen-edged. ‘Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he’s about.”
― Janny Wurts, To Ride Hell’s Chasm