100 Quotes by Max Gladstone

I’m on a quest, I think,” he said, not having realised this before. “Or something like one.”“Those went out of fashion a long time ago.

Life is a debt, of which death is our repayment.

Even fear faded, incipient mortality giving way to the kind of drawn-out academic detachment that rendered “certain death” as “incipient mortality.

A death may be a death, or early warning of existential threat or out-of-context problem. Nothing occurs in isolation. The world’s doom ripples back and forth through time.

To desperation,” he said, and raised his glass. She raised hers as well, toward the altar.“And to bleeding hearts,” she added, and they drank.

They found the Infirmary of Justice much as they had left it: white institutional walls, too-bright floors, and a reassuring smell of antiseptic. Reassuring at least to Tara, because the smell signalled that the people running this infirmary knew about antiseptic.

You need more wildness in your life.

Everyone likes to be needed.

There are many worlds, and one.