Swordheart (Swordheart, #1)

by T. Kingfisher

“Well,” he said. “The dead aren’t saints, merely because they’re dead.”

“That sounds like plain good sense.” “Perhaps there’s so little of that to go around that they had to make it divine.”

“I find that I would rather be an exile in my heart than the last survivor.

“To cut another property owner’s trees without permission is worse than poaching,” said Zale. “Men have been hanged for it.” “If they try to hang me, they’ll get a surprise,” said Sarkis. “Yes, but…” Zale looked at Halla helplessly. “Without explaining three hundred years of forestry laws, I’m not sure how to express this.”

I cannot believe I'm seeing tree law referenced from r/legaladvice in the wild