John

“Death was a tragedy. But death was also a data point.”
― Chuck Wendig, Wanderers

“But his niece—” “You heard him. Sensible. Intelligent. His niece is probably one of those dreadful modern girls who have opinions and think women should go to Oxford.”
― Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog

“If you want to know a man, dig in his firepit. The phrase was from the Roughs, maybe koloss in origin. Basically, it meant that you could judge a lot about a man’s life by what he threw away—or by what he was willing to burn in order to stay warm.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

“Years later, she poked through the Bible—because okay let’s be honest that was her Swedish Death Metal phase and suddenly a bloody guy on a cross held a certain romantic sway—and all she found was a few nice platitudes swaddled in a whole lot of hypocrisy, violence, and misogyny. No way was she going to church.”
― Chuck Wendig, Wanderers