Invader Xan

“It was quite a shock for me to discover that crime was so easy that it was boring. I reluctantly turned to scholarship.”
― Barry Hughart

“One does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger.”
― Marie Brennan, The Tropic of Serpents

“He was a man who did not properly exist in any single world, but he seemed to have found a place between them, and that, more than his past, was who he was.”
― Marie Brennan, The Tropic of Serpents

“So it has been, again and again throughout my life, as I form connections with people and then lose them to distance and time. I mourn those losses, even when I know my erstwhile friends are safe and happy among their own kin.”
― Marie Brennan, The Tropic of Serpents