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“Besides, you’d drown in darkness if you couldn’t laugh. Life is a farce and death an arse.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“If you were that way inclined then you wouldn’t have spent half your life penniless and puking in a gutter – you’d be off in some marble palace somewhere living like a lord and drinking yourself blind on fine wine. You wouldn’t be slumming it with a godsdamned lady of sheets to find out who killed an old friend.” “Charra–” She waved a dismissive hand. “I own the words, Walker. They can’t hurt me. Other people won’t forget what I was, so neither should I. And I meant every word.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“If I wasn’t who and what I was then I didn’t think I’d ever have noticed the taint to my thoughts. There was no way to know how much the magic had altered me in body or mind. I shuddered, horrified, fighting the urge to vomit. When a magus gave in to the Worm it didn’t create something that wasn’t already there, it was far more insidious than that: it took what already existed and twisted it, stretched it out in obscene directions. Those thoughts were horribly, and entirely, the darkest whispers of my own mind.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“In this life you can do everything right and the worst can still happen. Sometimes it craps on you at the roll of a dice; mine just happened to come up all ones.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“a shovel to the face was every bit as good as a fancy sword.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“I would do what I was good at – sneaky bastardry and fucking people up when and where they were least expecting it.”
― Cameron Johnston, God of Broken Things

“Mighty magus? Yes, yes all very powerful, but so is a blade in the back, no?”
― Cameron Johnston, God of Broken Things

“She came at me claws bared, then slowed as I found a crack in her mind, forced myself into the oozing darkness inside and ordered her to stop. Her mind was like sticking my hand up an angry badger’s arse – she fought me every step with feral rage like I had never felt before.”
― Cameron Johnston, God of Broken Things

“Proof that different didn’t necessarily equal broken, even when the math seemed so sure.”
― Jonathan Edward Durham, Winterset Hollow

“Age is a funny thing. Gets to a point where the past is unbelievably long and the future terrifyingly small.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Witch

“The past is a broken glass. Try to fix it and you’ll end up cutting yourself.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Zombie