Victor

“But there are some things, no matter if they’re true, you can’t live with them. You have to refuse them. You turn your eyes away from whatever’s squatting right there in front of you and not only pretend it isn’t there now, but that you never saw it in the first place. You do so because your soul is a frail thing that can’t stand the blast-furnace heat of revelation, and truth be damned.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

“My heart—I could not feel my heart, nor the emotion gripping it. What I felt was too big—it was as if it were outside me, a current that had swept me up and was rushing me along.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

“You're really going to the river, then?"
"I said I would."
"What we say and what we do are..."
"Well, I do what I say. Which is why I don't say much.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

“I pulled out my lighter and flicked my wrist to snap it open and light the flame in one motion. (If you do it right, it looks very suave. I used to practice it for hours as a teenager, in hopes of impressing girls.)”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep