Adrian

“The dead save me from the fucking young.’ ‘No getting away from ’em, sadly,’ muttered Clover. ‘The older you get, the more of ’em there are.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“When one of the kitchen domestics had begun breaking plates, it had only been on the third breakage that the unit had been retired as unfit for purpose. Given the considerable investment in domestic service that Charles represented, surely he should be allowed to murder three, or even five people before being deemed irreparably unfit for service.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model

“In war, you seize all the high ground you can.’ He lifted the egg to his lips, looking small between his big finger and thumb. ‘Except the moral kind.’ And he sucked the insides out through the hole. ‘That ain’t worth shit.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“And more to the point, I was reasonably certain he wasn’t going to try and devour my soul. My expectations for a husband had lowered.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver