The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3)

by Seth Dickinson

Your favorite thing in the world is to be too hurt for anyone to help.”

That’s the trick, she thinks. You let them choose which road to follow. But first, you have your people build the roads.

My professional relationship with Apparitor was, I suspected, about to encounter some complications.

True power was not the ability to conduct a killing or a business deal or an assignation but to alter the context by which those acts were judged and evaluated.

Kyprananoke is … small to me. Kyprananoke is a little stone in an old graveyard.”

ONCE more Bebble Auranic had sunburnt his balls.

Svir sends, and I quote, ‘best wishes for the negotiations, and his most affectionate Fuck Yourself.’”

procht, the Stakhi word for things which come of thinking.