“To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not training her to bite? Training both of them to bite?”
― The Waste Lands
― The Waste Lands
“Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from the one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.”
― Eleven Minutes
― Eleven Minutes
“The only thing she could do now was to shed a few tears, feeling rather afraid of herself, an intelligent young woman, who had everything going for her, but who tended to make the wrong decisions. She just hoped that this time she was right.”
― Eleven Minutes
― Eleven Minutes
“A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had.”
― Wizard and Glass
― Wizard and Glass
“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising
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