Colum Slevin

“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.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“I’m not into success as a metric.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Future

“I can see my glass is half full … but, of course, I did order a double.”
― Fran Lebowitz, 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?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow