Alejandro Delgadillo

“Morning Mister Mayhew" he said. It was not a welcoming "morning". It was the kind of "morning" that implied that the speaker really did not care if the recipient lived or died - nor indeed, for that matter, if it was even morning”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“We are all children of both the good and evil that has gone before us.”
― Tad Williams, Shadowrise

“Patience’s own books were a far more eclectic and battered collection. There was a book on horseshoeing and smithing, with notes in Patience’s hand about her own experiments. There were books on butterflies and birds and famous highwaymen and legends of sea monsters. There was an old vellum on the managing of pecksies and how to bind them so that they must do all your housework, and a set of little scrolls on distilling and flavoring spirits. There were three old tablets, much worn, on ways a woman might make herself fecund. But”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin