Daisy Gunner

“In the songs, Angulf Clovenfoot’s Gettlanders fell upon the Vanstermen like hawks from an evening sky. Master Hunnan’s misfits fell on Rissentoft like a herd of sheep down a steep flight of steps.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half the World

“There’s no need to imagine the planet as some malevolent force seeking vengeance. It’s a rock. This is just how life is supposed to be: terrible and brief and ending in—if you’re lucky—oblivion.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

“No matter how great and glorious the making, time will unmake it. No matter how strong the word, strong the thought, strong the law, all must return to chaos.’ Skifr jerked her head back and sent spit spinning high into the air, arcing neatly down and spattering on rusted metal. ‘King Uthil says steel is the answer. I say his sight is short. Dust is the last answer to every question, now and always.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a War

“In politically tense times, differences – rather than similarities – can easily be brought into sharp focus. And such differences can be exploited by any politician who ultimately cares more about their own power, or indeed some abstract idea of nationhood, than about the lives of ordinary people and the ordinary communities that they govern.”
― Alice Roberts, Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond