Kristen

“This is a lesson in creation: The first blood of blood magic is always your own.”
― Jeff Mach, There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord

“The farther removed you are from people actually shooting at you, the more you forget that cannons can do something to you other than fire salutes.”
― Jeff Mach, "I Hate Your Time Machine": A fiction-fueled guide to some of the worst tropes of Fantasy & Science Fiction

“On the one hand, it seems reasonable to expect sentient beings to learn from their mistakes. On the other hand, fire is pretty.”
― Jeff Mach, I HATE Your Prophecy: A Completely Serious Look At Magic, Destiny, And What Happens When You Make A Sorceress Mad

“Words are not enough. Not mine, cut off at the throat before they breathe. Never forming, broken and swallowed, tossed into the void before they are heard. It would be easy to follow, fall to my knees, prostrate before the deli counter. Sweep the shelves clear, scatter the tins, pound the cakes to powder. Supermarket isles stretching out in macabre displays. Christmas madness, sad songs and mistletoe, packed car parks, rotten leaves banked up in corners. Forgotten reminders of summer before the storm. Never trust a promise, they take prisoners and wishes never come true. Fairy stories can have grim endings and I don’t know how I will face the world without you.”
― Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale