Rinaldo

“She did feel everything she’d said. The despair. Who wouldn’t, if they were paying attention? But you didn’t feel it all the time. You walled it up with purpose. With friendship. With vows and work. And you reminded yourself that it was not just you who felt this way, that there were others out there with their own pits and walls and vows and love and work, and you tried to let that make you kind.”
― Max Gladstone, Last Exit

“What if you could peel a pearl? Take a fine knife and a magnifying glass and strip the layers of glint and glimmer year by year, until at last you reached the bit of wrong that had birthed the shine. But you’d have no pearl left.”
― Max Gladstone, Last Exit

“The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story.”
― Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill

“The limits of our questions often limit the answers we are prepared to receive.”
― Sarah Lin, Bloodcrete