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The gods make kings, fools and pawns of us all … In equal turn, but not in equal length.
“I knew you thought yourself poison to all those around you,” he’d added. “I knew you thought there to be some corruptive force about you that would break me.”
― Clockwork Princess
― Clockwork Princess
“I am,” Will said, “perhaps, not someone to take advice from if you are seeking happiness.”
― Clockwork Princess
― Clockwork Princess
“It means, ah, death-love, death-desire. It’s hard to translate. It means you have moods where you absolutely want to destroy yourself. Not as some self-pitying idle notion, either. As a certainty!”
― The Republic of Thieves
― The Republic of Thieves
“It takes a certain amount of desperation before people finally stop caring about their immediate futures and start to look at the long term.”
― This Inevitable Ruin
― This Inevitable Ruin
“Victra murmurs. “You’re the bookish one. Was it a man who said ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’?” A lancer brings her gauntlets. “It must have been—to imagine something so petty as scorn to be the utmost misery a woman could suffer. What, I wonder, would he make of a mother who has seen her husband sold like meat and her babe nailed to a tree?” She dons her gauntlets. “Perhaps: wrath, I am thee? They come for our children, Virginia.” She turns to me and cups my face with one hand. “Do not fear for me. Instead, pity them.”
― Light Bringer
― Light Bringer
Ryan’s 2025 Year in Books
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