What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

by T. Kingfisher

The upshot of all of this is that the Gallacian language is intensely idiosyncratic. (We have seven sets of pronouns, for example, one of which is for inanimate objects and one of which is used only for God. It’s probably a miracle that we don’t have one just for mushrooms.)

Sometimes it’s hard to know if someone is insulting or just an American.

His voice had that light veneer of humor that we all get, because if we don’t pretend we’re laughing, we might have to admit just how broken we are.

“You know what men are like when women try to tell them anything.”