“Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish Id gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jam...”

“Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives.”

“I just feel like were starting to interfere on a level thats sort of . . . extreme. But thats what heroes do.”

“I just wasnt sure it was a good idea to approach heroing the way Id always approached detecting. Can you really shake the world until justice falls out?”

“Even when she slept, she tossed and turned and squirmed, like she was secretly a hurricane forced into a girl-body and told to exist as best she could among people who had no idea what it meant to ...”

“Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I’d gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly ja...”

“Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.Le...”

“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine...”

“Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?”