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‘Do you find it so easy to kill people you disagree with? Because perhaps the disease afflicting my city is what’s making us all so quick to draw steel and slit each other’s throats over any perceived slight and disagreement.’
‘The Vixen expected to find a rabbit hopping unknowingly into her lair tonight, but in truth, she faced that most dangerous of predators, the beast before whom all others must roll upon the ground to reveal their bellies . . . an actor!’
This is why the gods created the theatre: Art in the service of Chaos! Actors giving shape to the truth until it shakes the very foundations of the world!’
“The world needs stories as much as it needs verdicts. It wants for hope even more than justice.
The world is positively stuffed with arseholes, I thought. May all the gods keep me from becoming one of them.
The first rule of the sword? An old Greatcoats saying, I informed him as I raced after Beretto. ‘Put the pointy end in the other guy first.’
How often we find those in power and those who seek it grasping like children at each other’s toys.
‘Love is an onion, my boy. Leave it too long and the heart of it will rot. So you’ve got to carefully peel back the layers until you find beneath something so beautiful it brings you to tears.’
Pissant little brat sucker-punched you before anyone had even called the fight to begin.’ ‘Schoolyard brawls are woefully lax in their adherence to proper duelling etiquette.’
That is the gift soldiers give to those they defend – not merely protection from the enemy but protection from the truth of what their safety costs.
Lies are the grease that keeps the wheels of state turning,
The brutal targeting of immigrants prevents the growth of shared knowledge and understanding.
