“When you shatter the chains of this world and forge the next, remember that art is as vital as food to a kingdom. Without it, a kingdom is nothing, and will be forgotten by time.”
Read More“My name is Celaena Sardothien,” she whispered, “and I will not be afraid.”
Read MoreNo longer would they be locked away in her heart.
Read More“Once you know this, there is no unknowing it,”
Read More“Guards are of no use in a library.” Oh, how wrong he was! Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
Read MoreHere is a very special place - one that we all know in some form or fashion.
Read MoreWe have been given immense power, and we must use it. To squander it would be wicked especially if we do not use it to right wrongs
Read MoreA slow-burn fantasy romance for fans of S.A. Chakraborty
Read More“They came for Manchuria first. They will come for Shanghai next, swallow up the coastal city where they have already been allowed land and law. The empire across the sea is small. And when this is an age of expansion, they will claim that invasion must be performed in self-defense, that it is a necessity while their people grow hungrier, a population with mouths to feed and feet to plant.”
Read More“That’s ridiculous—I would never kick him onto the sofa,” Juliette replied. “If he ever angers me, a better punishment would be for him to continue sleeping next to me, feeling the power of my wrath.”
Read MoreThe rest of us have to keep racing along the hamster wheel of relevance.
Read MoreThe world is changing, and the more penitent humans there are, the less it’s “socially acceptable” to acknowledge the existence of magic.
Read MoreSo Nesta had become a wolf. Armed herself with invisible teeth and claws, and learned to strike faster, deeper, more lethally. Had relished it. But when the time came to put away the wolf, she’d found it had devoured her, too.
Read MoreIt’s a time of rest, too. And a time to reflect on the darkness—how it lets the light shine.
Read MoreMy friends—they had gone to war and back and had not found it worthy of glorification, had not let its memory become rose-tinted in the centuries following.
Read MoreWhen you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
Read MoreYou don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend.
Read MoreDoubts, like ghosts, gain strength in darkness
Read MoreMen find it easier to believe they have been swindled by a witch than outwitted by a woman.
Read MoreA Most Agreeable Murder feels as if Bridgerton and Agatha Christie came together, with a sprinkling of Twilight, and made a book.
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