The Hod King (The Books of Babel, #3)

by Josiah Bancroft

Why do we call a dishonest person two-faced? Is it really so honest to wear the same face day in, day out, regardless of our mood, our condition, or the event? We are not clocks! Have a face for every occasion, I say! Be honest: Wear a mask.”

“It’s possible, I think, to be so many things at once that you’re practically nothing at all. If you crush a mountain and spread it across a continent, it doesn’t make little mountains; it just vanishes into dust.”

a pork-beef hybrid called moink.)

All they’ve ever taught me is that my inner nemesis is a crueler critic than my gravest enemy. So what? I still have to sleep with the fellow!