Gavin

“Trust me, Eisenhorn, if I ever thought you were, I’d shoot you myself.’ I glanced back at him. ‘Please do.”
― Dan Abnett, Eisenhorn

“moving as seamlessly from sex to violence as an ’80s action movie.”
― Daniel Polansky, A City Dreaming

“Leo prodded at his fish. ‘Just feels like there are too many brown faces around in Adua these days.’ ‘Too many for what? The people who come here are hard workers. They bring wealth and energy and new ideas. There are great thinkers among them. Great engineers. And how would you stop them, anyway? Make us less prosperous?’ Leo did not look convinced. He was not a man much moved by reason. ‘We fought a war against the Gurkish,’ he grumbled. ‘You fought a war against the Northmen. Some of your best friends are still Northmen.’ He actually looked slightly offended. ‘Not all Northmen are the same, you know.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“She was tempted by something stronger than her. Adam was tempted by a weaker creature. Or so we are told. If Eve was his inferior, his sin was greater. You can’t have it both ways.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires