“She was a fighter, but she wasn’t a warrior. She was always leading the struggle, but she did it by finding other ways to get the work done. Alliances, political pressure, trade, logistics. Her strategy was always that violence came last.”
“Having a new high consul would be difficult under any circumstances, but it would be less difficult if there were a story with it.”
― Tiamat's Wrath
― Tiamat's Wrath
“I am not a cruel man. Not at all! I will pray for you – entire decades of the rosary! Although God cannot hear us in hell. Or is this just purgatory, do you think? With somewhere even worse waiting for us?”
― The Invasion
― The Invasion
“Plenty come back from the Grey Land with a taste for blood. But any kind of horror will do that for you. It takes decades to breed a war out of a people that went through it.”
― The Invasion
― The Invasion
“We could make the thief’s arms longer and put suckers on them like that boy from before, do you remember? I made a trellis of him and kissed you to the music of his tears.”
― The Invasion
― The Invasion
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