Under My Skin Quotes

“That’s what tends to happen when someone in a position of power feels strongly about something—a bad thing happens, and then governance does something worse—and usually missing the point completely;”
― K.J. Parker, Under My Skin

“There is only one war. It’s never over. It flows, like the metal at white heat under the hammer, and joins up with the last war and the next war, to form one continuous ribbon.”
― K.J. Parker, Under My Skin

“It was as though a colour had been removed from the spectrum—blue, say—and every shade of blue and purple and all the other colours that have a bit of blue in them suddenly weren’t there any more. Instead there were outlines, waiting to be filled in, but there was nothing to fill them in with apart from rapidly dwindling memories and the inescapable knowledge that something was missing.”
― K.J. Parker, Under My Skin

“Saloninus’ Third Law: every human being is capable of an infinite quantity of work, so long as it’s not the work he’s supposed to be doing.”
― K.J. Parker, Under My Skin

“Stealing for a living is like falling off a roof. For a while, you sail along, exhilarated by the slipstream, free as a bird and twice as fast through the air, and then you hit something and it’s suddenly no good at all.”
― K.J. Parker, Under My Skin