Nick Tinsley

“Adventures have to be paid for in either the currencies of blood or of innocence. Nobody has an adventure ‘for free’. Nobody leaves an adventure unchanged, untainted. Those who come out the other end are awash and soaked through to the bone either way, in the blood of those they had made those strong memories with or in the blood of the thing that had beckoned them to adventure in the first place.”
― Razzmatazz

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Daddy always said nothing solves a problem like fire. If fire doesn’t fix it, use more fire.” My kind do not use fire, but the logic fits for a certain subset of problem types.”
― Scott Browder, Skyclad

“no matter how many fools wake up and smell the roses, there’s always more of them who prefer the dream.”
― Niall Teasdale, Eden Burning