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“I’m more about giving the reader an immersive, enjoyable experience than being 100% technically correct. So Mardok has a bit of his own slang tossed in (keffing!) and a lot of our own idioms in there simply because it makes the book flow. Some of you might be out there saying, “An advanced culture wouldn’t talk like this, Ruby!” And I know this! But I thought it would ‘keep you in the story’ more than a phrase like “Mardok picked up his zabiji and gave the kislani a toss. Bazet milani, he hated when the zippi doo dat had a yippie-ki-yay stuck into it.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Choice

“It's not other people that hurt us, but what we feel about them”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Ms. Haas," I protested, "I do not wish to commemorate our failure with confectionery."

"Failure? I never fail. I just sometimes lack the impetus to pursue success as rigorously as I might.”
― Alexis Hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter

“I'm conscious this could be rather burdensome to hear, but you remain the thing I have most chosen for myself. The thing that's most exclusively mine. The one thing that brings me the deepest joy.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material