Stephanie

“It was no use arguing with yourself, he learned as the night crawled along, waves splashing him over and over like some endless slapstick sketch from Hell’s own music hall. Misery always knew all the weak spots. Misery always won.”
― Tad Williams, Mountain of Black Glass

“Dajer laughed. Dusk hated that sound. It was the laugh of a man who had never had to care what his noises did to other people.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Isles of the Emberdark

“Here is a fairy tale founded upon the wonders of electricity and written for children of this generation. Yet when my readers shall have become men and women my story may not seem to their children like a fairy tale at all. “Perhaps one, perhaps two—perhaps several of the Demon’s devices will be, by that time, in popular use. “Who knows?” —L. Frank Baum, The Master Key”
― Tad Williams, Sea of Silver Light

“Gods, Ed said, could not be contained by steel, ceramic, or even an Invested shield. But a story…well, that was another thing entirely.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Isles of the Emberdark