Scourged (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #10)

by Kevin Hearne

Minimalist, methinks it’s called. Or miserable. I think the words may be related.

Me skills with nuances are often limited to being just aware enough of their existence to know that I’m probably missing them.

Pick a system—any system, legal or ecclesiastical—and you’ll start to wonder at how anyone could think it was fair. And then you’ll realize it was never meant to be fair but rather was intended to protect the interests of the powerful, and then you’re wading through a swamp of cynicism and your day’s ruined.

The danger of growing old is growing comfortable and complacent at the same time. We should seek out the new and strange and applaud it and throw wild fecking parties whenever it walks into our lives. We should be building roads in and out of our own wee heads rather than erecting walls around them.