The Last Hour of Gann

by R. Lee Smith

God gives even the biggest fool one real talent.”

A man can see a thousand miraculous things in his life and still be washed away by one bad turn on a stretch of bad road.”

“I would trade all the teeth out of my head to be you for one night,” sighed Nkosa, and turned his empty cup right-side up again. “And it would be a fine night, I suppose, if you abused it right,” said Meoraq, flicking his spines dismissively, “but you would be toothless the rest of your life and I think you would remember that best.”

Men did not need reasons to indulge in acts of evil, just as they did not need evil enacted against them to send them crying to the courts for justice.

life is in the journey. If you cannot have an easy journey, have an interesting story.”

“Why do you throw questions around when you cannot catch the answers?

He knew that joy can be a terrible thing to feel, when you know you can’t have it every day.

There is no night, however dark and filled with woe, that is not followed by dawn.”

You are without equal in the realm of the very different.

“It’s funny, isn’t it?” he murmured. “The things you find to love in this life…so you don’t hate yourself so much for living it.”