Storm

“You want War, Here we Come.”
― Jin Yong, A Heart Divided

“Now, I have heard it all," murmured Balthazar, looking from Vigga, back to Brother Diaz with an expression almost of wonder. "How can I be both disappointed, and impressed, and with both of you at once?”
― Joe Abercrombie

“He would not have particularly blamed her if Eudoxia blasted him with lightning a second time, but she only pressed her lips thoughtfully together.
"You have done three things men almost never do. Impressed me, interested me and turned me down.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils

“Bright Blue Water seemed to surround us, absolving us. And if I felt any sorrow, it was only for the years we had wasted in hating each. The great things we might have done, the adventures we could have had. We might have been anything, and gone anywhere. For in that moment it seemed we were both Dancers, both Pirates, both Duchesses and Knights. Clara had forgiven me, and I had forgiven her. And so at last we were together, both of us at the end, just as we were at the beginning. Free of the Queen's terrible country, As though we had never been divided. As though we'd passed through all of it, this wild theatrical of life and somehow come out whole on the other side. Silence set around us, soft and welcoming as a velvet curtain, and then all was still.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets