Julian Sheridan

“But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Inheritance Trilogy

“Half the mountains in the Northern Barrier Range had just erupted, blown their tops off like ripe pimples. She hadn’t even known they were volcanic, but now they were lobbing big seminal gobbets of lava all over their lower slopes, like a drunk prom queen puking on her dress. Shit was getting geological, yo.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

“Up through around twenty-five he’d never even thought about his back: it was a balanced, frictionless, self-regulating system. Now it felt like a busted gearbox into which somebody had chucked a handful of sand.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

“Visiting friends just to shoot the shit is the human equivalent of picking ticks off of one another’s backs.”
― David McRaney, You are Not So Smart