“The clearest evidence that justice is the most important of all the virtues comes from what happens when you remove it. It’s remarkably stark: The presence of injustice instantly renders any act of virtue—courage, discipline, wisdom—any skill, any achievement, worthless…or worse.”
Read MoreThe unsaid thing about funerals is that directly after the communal mourning for someone you love, after everyone is gone and the connected grief dispersed, comes a solitude beyond imagining. A great, gaping nothing where a whole person and life and future used to be. The other side of a funeral is abyss.
Read MoreBecause broken hearts strip vocabularies down to their raw bones…
Read MoreWhen Kyra makes all the males disappear, she must choose her sister who hates her or the man who loves her.
Read MoreNo one keeps every book they read, which means the ones we do keep are important. A person’s library is like a fingerprint.
Read MoreI don’t think we know what we’re made of until the worst moment possible happens. Then we must decide who we truly are and what is most important to us. I think we’re often surprised by what we become.
Read MoreEndings were often found in beginnings, and she began to type what she knew.
Read MoreThe arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.
Read MoreThere is an old saying here in the Borderlands: ‘Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.’
Read MoreYou listen sharp, think deep, and guard your tongue. That’s good advice.
Read MoreUnpaid soldiers become angry. Angry, unpaid soldiers forget their loyalty.
Read MoreThose broken by worldly violence and loss did not deserve to be shunned when they struggled to rise once more.
Read MoreHe had made mistakes in the past, bad calls, but fighting against tyranny, against brutality, would never be the wrong choice.
Read MoreYou only need to look up to see the best proof of endless possibilities.
Read MoreThe world he thought he knew had become an odd thing, twisting time and purpose. But it had remained an unfair universe in the end.
Read More… many folk obey ancient laws of hospitality and cannot simply come charging into one’s home to murder guests.”
Read MorePeople don’t need wild gods any more when they’re fat and rich and comfortable. Gods don’t take kindly to being forgotten.
Read MoreBecause love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.
Read MoreHe’d had enough experience of both kinds of misfortune to know that there was a vast difference between feeling yourself a victim of random strokes of fate and having to accept that your troubles had been brought about by your own folly.
Read MoreThere is nothing more sacred than the Archives. Even temples can be rebuilt, but books cannot be rewritten.
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