“To touch the Bloody-Nine was to touch death, and death has no favourites, and makes no exceptions. The Bloody-Nine rose up, shoving the great corpse away from him, and his red fist closed tight around the giant’s sword, a heavy length of star-bright metal, dark and beautiful, a righteous tool for the work that awaited him. So much work.”
― Last Argument of Kings
― Last Argument of Kings
“I’m not into success as a metric.”
― The Future
― The Future
“I can see my glass is half full … but, of course, I did order a double.”
― Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir
― Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir
“virtual worlds can be better than the actual world. They can be more moral, more just, more progressive, more empathetic, and more accommodating of difference. And if they can be, shouldn’t they be?”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“The girl was bright and possessed a wry wit. Definitely not a prized combination in anyone under thirty.”
― The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories
― The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories
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