Jess

“Normal people flirt. I think. Apparently we just exchange terrible life stories.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Grace

“There is no revolution without domestic labor.”
― Lorissa Rinehart, First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent

“You never knew when you might have to cut and run. Normal people probably didn't worry about that. Normal people probably had nice, normal lives. Grace only had her own life, and it had taught her that you took precautions because life changed too often at other people's whims and sooner or later, everything would be taken away.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Grace

“Once a thing is made, it exists in the mind of the world. The next one is easier to make, and the next one after that.

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"The first takes a twisted genius. The hundredth can be done by any blacksmith. It is why our first lesson is always be careful of what you make.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope