Invader Xan

“There is nothing in the world so enticing as that which you have been told you may not have.”
― Marie Brennan, The Tropic of Serpents

“So it has been, again and again throughout my life, as I form connections with people and then lose them to distance and time. I mourn those losses, even when I know my erstwhile friends are safe and happy among their own kin.”
― Marie Brennan, The Tropic of Serpents

“I would choose the heat above an equal degree of chill. The evidence of natural history points to a tropical origin for our species, and I believe it to be true.”
― Marie Brennan, The Tropic of Serpents

“It was quite a shock for me to discover that crime was so easy that it was boring. I reluctantly turned to scholarship.”
― Barry Hughart