Christopher Vance

“The Weaver had turned himself into an urhaalgar.  Or, at least, a creature that looked something like an urhaalgar. Most of the urhaalgars Ridmark had fought were short, spindly creatures, shorter than even Jager, their thin limbs covered with spines. The thing that the Weaver had become stood seven feet tall, his limbs heavy and thick with muscle, spines jutting from his limbs as long as daggers, their edges serrated, his flesh covered with glistening black scales. A scorpion’s tail rose over the Weaver’s spiked shoulders, the stinger dripping with venom.  It was exactly the kind of creature Ridmark would not have wanted to fight in an enclosed space. ”
― Jonathan Moeller, The World Gate

“When people are rich enough, they can afford to live disconnected from nature. What does it matter if the atmosphere is fouled when you live cradle to grave in sealed vehicles and buildings where the air is finely controlled? Sure, there were millions of people who cared and tried to save things. But there were billions more who carried on their happy lives as planetary parasites, shopping and gorging with endless appetites, forever plugged into an endless stream of distracting entertainments that allowed them to ignore the greater truth around them.”
― James Maxey, Bitterwood: The Complete Collection

“better to fight and to fail,” said Hugh, “than to do nothing and perish.” Mazael”
― Jonathan Moeller, Soul of Skulls

“Strength gives a man the right to do as he wishes."  "The philosophy of a bully and a thug,”
― Jonathan Moeller, Soul of Skulls