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“Compassion existed when and only when one could step outside oneself, to suddenly see the bars from inside the cage.”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“At the Baron’s elbow walked Feyd-Rautha. His dark hair was dressed in close ringlets that seemed incongruously gay above sullen eyes. He wore a tight-fitting black tunic and snug trousers with a suggestion of bell at the bottom. Soft-soled slippers covered his small feet.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Peasant men and women had already come out of their homes from the tantalizing sound of strife.”
― Andrew J. Peters, Slashed and Mashed: Seven Gayly Subverted Stories

“the bedside, stripped him of his clothes, and introduced Károly to the many delicious debaucheries men did with one another in private. In the manner of a virgin youth who had barely conceived of such pleasures, Károly went along with thunderstruck abandon and great multitudes of gratitude.”
― Andrew J. Peters, Slashed and Mashed: Seven Gayly Subverted Stories

“She has learned to suppress her flight instincts, to put on a sickle-cell smile when asked the tickbox questions she gets every year.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The New Voices of Fantasy

“What’s wrong with you?’ ‘Happy…ha, that’s good. Very good.’ He then turned to study her. ‘You’re eager for Skulldeath to take one of those flying leaps straight between your legs? You want to get pregnant with some prince from some Seven Cities flying squirrel tribe?”
― Steven Erikson, Reaper's Gale

“The moment I saw you, I felt a tug. You are the feeling of falling, the tidal waters, the way a living thing will always turn, seeking light. It isn’t that I think you are good or kind, or even that I love you. It is only that, the moment I saw you, I knew I would seek you out. Just as I sought the deathless waters. Just as I sought my brother. Just as I seek all things—without thought, with nothing but want.”
― Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne

“You can try to fill it with whatever you like. Wine. Women. Work. In the end, a hole is still a hole.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“the memory was sharp as broken glass.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“he was quick as maggots on a corpse,”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“She looked and felt… nothing. The nothing was so solid, so complete, that she knew it wasn’t true emptiness or true neutrality. It was a feeling like a fist around a throat. “Princess,” the”
― Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne

“The High Priest’s voice was rich and unmistakable—a vast thing, neither loud nor soft, but pervasive. It was a voice made for mantras, for song, for guidance. For pouring faith, like wine, into the cup of a waiting heart.”
― Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword