Tales of the Greatcoats Vol. 1: Swashbuckling Fantasy Stories

by Sebastien de Castell

But I’m not a coward. I’m not. At least, I don’t think I am. I’m just afraid all the time.

The lesson lies in the questions we finally ask ourselves at the precise instant when the answers are too late to do us any good.’

Memories are the past's way of ensnaring us, hunting us down as surely as any constable, seeking to lock us up behind bars harder than iron in a cell from which no one escapes.

A murderer is an amateur who need kill only once. An assassin is a professional who must kill twice, and make of herself the first victim.

Estevar said, ‘Let the exorcism begin.’