“Because good people can turn desperate when the horrors are upon them—especially people whose culture of plenty has left them with no systems to cope with scarcity or cataclysm. Good people will turn monstrous when it’s down to their survival or someone else’s.”
― Blood Over Bright Haven
― Blood Over Bright Haven
“In refusing to be a stepping stone, she had made herself a boot.”
― Blood Over Bright Haven
― Blood Over Bright Haven
“And then, Tress took the singular step that separated her from people in most stories. The act, it might be said, that defined her as a hero. She did something so incredible, I can barely express its majesty.
'I should consider this more,' Tress thought to herself, 'and not jump to conclusions.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
'I should consider this more,' Tress thought to herself, 'and not jump to conclusions.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“The world’s soft the way the ocean is. Ask any sailor what I mean. But even when it is at its most violent, Hadrian . . . focus on the beauty of it.”
― Kingdoms of Death
― Kingdoms of Death
“Sometimes, asking the questions is enough. Because it has to be enough. Because sometimes, that's all there is.”
― The Sunlit Man
― The Sunlit Man
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