9 Quotes by Nisi Shawl

Everything boiled down to alcohol and guns.

This was why there was no more beauty in the world anymore. War had killed it.

They were losing. No. They had lost.

Some of my favorite places I have been in my life exist only in dreams.

She had learned from experience that scared men were dangerous.

You funny thing! So selfish, so practical. Never mind. I will not ask you to kill me, for you would surely find it an annoying task.

And you may find it necessary, sometimes, to be less than you are capable of being. I know – ” His last words are lost as she is born.

I’ve found something out about myself. I can’t bow to another man.

The steampunk genre often works as a form of alternate history, showing us how small changes to what actually happened might have resulted in momentous differences: clockwork Victorian-era computers, commercial transcontinental dirigible lines, and a host of other wonders. This is that kind of book.