“Ivan, task handled, lowered his hand, pausing only to pop his knuckles. He turned to face his apprentice. He cleared his throat, and took one quick glance over his shoulder where the angry giant ro...”

“All of us, together, are the unlovable, the unreformable. We, the people, who are deemed incapable of existing alongside society. But, we did just that in the forming of this guild. We have done mo...”

“Trying to shatter peace, even if its not one you agree with, is the work of the mad and the wicked.”

“In case it has slipped your notice, the vast majority of your education has emphasized survival and not getting caught. Id say you talked more about the code than anything else, Tory pointed out. W...”

“In other circumstances, Ivan might have offered him a job. Sadly, with a few notable meta exceptions, dead men didnt code very well.”

“To put it as simply as possible, I ate a god.”

“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”

“I used to hold you as my everything,And so I built my castles in your lands,But you proved to me your inadequacies,With this, how will my castles stand?”

“Come with me if you want to live. Neva stared at the enormous hand the stranger extended her. Her gaze followed the black leather-clad arm up to the massive shoulders, the strong jaw, and the thick...”

“Shit. Shit. Shit. Hed known he couldnt save her. Hed known he was too far away. Knowing didnt prevent the bare-knuckled punch to his heart, though.”

“Maybe shed remember him as a pain in the ass. Or maybe, he hoped most of all, that shed remember what she told him: You can be a real jerk sometimes, but youre decent. As epitaphs went, it wasnt bad.”

“This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains.”