100 Quotes by Max Gladstone

Put not your trust in things, but in men. And women.

It is easy, fast, to fight and die beside your brothers in the sun. It is harder to build, to teach, to live, and to remember.

Nevers and onlys and forevers grew as you did.

She had never been weak enough to need meanness.

Ancient sages have written: what you cannot break, you do not own.

Zanj chose her words like an old woman crossing ice might choose her steps—Viv almost believed she was really so lost and alone.

They knew each other’s jokes, even the bad ones, and the weak points in their walls. That was why their fights were so harsh.

Home is a dream, and only dreams survive on dreams alone. The real world takes real work.

The people don’t care about theology. They are passion and fear and anger and they need gods to fuel that passion, soothe that fear, stoke that anger.