Sha Rockingham

“LCVI

If I should cast off this tattered coat,
And go free into the mighty sky;
If I should find nothing there
But a bast blue,
Echoless, ignorant,-
What then?”
― Stephen Crane

“Ersken gathered the dice, put them in the cup they had used for play, and tucked it inside one bound Rat's shirt.
"Let that be a lesson to you not to gamble," he told the Rat soberly. "The trickster asks you pay for any luck you may have, one way or another."
"Bless the boy, he's a priest with it," one of the Goddess warriors said with a grin. "After this, laddie, what's say I take you home and rub some of that off yez?"
Ersken actually winked at her! "Forgive me, gracious warrior, but my woman would turn me into something unnatural if I took you up on your kind offer," he replied as if he truly regretted it. "She's a mage and I'd best stay devoted.”
― Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

“The real slog, if they wanted to get serious, was to convince hunters, collectors, and enthusiasts that no one was coming for their guns.”
― Dave Cullen, Parkland: Birth of a Movement

“A faint heart and a weak eye sees doom in everything,”
― Garth Nix, Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: The Complete Adult Debut—Godslaying Fantasy Adventures of a Witch Knight and Puppet Sorcerer