Master of One Quotes

“„Dirt isn’t supposed to be good for scrapes. You know that, right?”
Shining Talon didn’t look up as he replied, “Fed with the corpses and blood of my ancestors, this dirt is different.”
“Ew,” Rags said.”
― Jaida Jones, Master of One

“„My apologies, Lo – Rags the Thief,” Shining Talon replied, „but the trees do not speak to me.”
„Yeah, trees don't speak to anyone.”
„They should,” Shining Talon insisted. „They used to.”
Rags had to bite. „What did they say? 'Fuck, there's a worm in my roots, tickles like a sonofawhore?' 'Wish that sparrow would stop taking a shit on me?'”
„Yes,” Shining Talon admitted, „those were the most common complaints. But they phrased it so beautifully. Through their language, you could understand a little more of the living world.”
Rags gave up talking to him after that.”
― Jaida Jones, Master of One

“Morien. Morien the Last. Rags recognized the name from rumors only. His mind spun. Last what? Last in his class, or last thing you see before he tears out your still-beating heart and eats it with eggs at breakfast?”
― Jaida Jones, Master of One

“Rags breathed in deeply, could almost smell the familiar mix of cheap food and pollution. The press of too many bodes too close together. Tenements and sewers and laundries and countless pickpockets, scoundrels who'd steal the eyes out of your head if you didn't keep watch on them.
Home.”
― Jaida Jones, Master of One

“What did one trash-raised, trash-named thief know about the Lost-Lands? The same stories every guttersnitch knew: extravagant lies, elaborate inventions.”
― Jaida Jones, Master of One