Jamaal Morris

“I believe that history is a listing of atrocities and horror...not because we are evil, but because history is itself a kind of performance. And we are fascinated by those events and characters which are most unlike our essential selves."

"Wait, You're saying...are you saying that the whole blood-drenched history of the world-war after murder after war-says something good about humanity?”
― Daniel Abraham, The Spider's War

“I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn’t make a world better than this,”
― Daniel Abraham, The Dragon's Path

“When you start talking about killed friends and lost babies, justice and revenge are two names for the same dog.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Spider's War

“The weapon is poison,' Kit said. 'I believe that the cause we carry it in is just, but that will not protect you. It is not only death to those whose skin it cuts; it holds a deeper violence within it. If you carry it-just that, carry it and nothing more-the poison will still affect you. In time, you will grow ill from it, and eventually, inevitably, it will kill you.'

'It's a sword, Kit,' Marcus said, lifting the green scabbard from it's place. They're all like that.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law