100 Quotes by Max Gladstone

Sixty years ago, these men and women broke the heavens, and made the gods weep. They had spent the time since learning how hard it was to run a world.

Affairs had fallen out better this time than forty years ago, but still he yearned for the water. Land lied to the feet, and to the soul. You stand, it whispered, upon unchanging ground. You build upon certainty, and your foundations will never crumble.

Someone else had made her a weapon, but she made herself kind.

So in this letter, I am yours.

Justice is like math, anyone can think she knows the answer, but not every answer is right.

She tried not to think in capital letters. It was a bad habit. If you weren’t careful, pretty soon you’d find yourself Going to the Store to Buy a Carton of Milk – or worse, speaking German.

And she accepted the bridge date from the tentacled horror, with the proviso that her schedule would be inflexible for the next several weeks. Up.

He sighed. “There is one thing you must understand about destroying gods, boy.” “Only one?” “You must be ready to take their place.

Always know the shape you take – know it so well you can shift it to your purpose, so well the form gives way to formlessness again. What is a grain but a seed? And from a seed, you can grow anything. Like, say, a family.