Gavin

“I heard you had all the brains around here but Leo, why didn’t you tell me how very handsome he is?’ ‘Well …’ Leo cleared his throat. ‘I suppose that’s not the sort of thing a man notices …”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace

“they’ll take good and bad alike to Hell, because there won’t be anyplace but Hell anymore. Not without love. Not without forgiveness.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

“Summer had barely begun and already the city of Janloon was like a spent lover—sticky and fragrant.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

“The thing about an addict, as anyone who has ever dealt with one knows, is that it becomes impossible to determine where exactly their instinct toward self-destruction becomes intertwined with a desperate need for attention, if they’re running into walls because they want you to help them up or because they’ve come to love the taste of blood.”
― Daniel Polansky, A City Dreaming