AoC

“She looked up at the sky and closed her eyes briefly, as if even God would have trouble believing the depths of my ignorance.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Feasts at Night

“The priest stood over the anvil, pounding the cherry-red steel as he chanted.”
― Graham Austin-King, Faithless

“Why axes? Why not Lewistons, or rifles, or pistols? Because the space armor of that day could withstand almost indefinitely the output of two or three hand-held projectors; because the resistance of its defensive fields varied directly as the cube of the velocity of any material projectile encountering them. Thus, and strangely enough, the advance of science had forced the re-adoption of that long-extinct weapon.”
― E.E. "Doc" Smith, First Lensman

“Stupid storm, stupid cows, stupid mattress, stupid cart. Stupidest of all, the people who built doorways too narrow for carts to get through them.”
― Elizabeth Moon, Remnant Population