Never ask a poet to tell you the truth. We have ten different ways to describe a drink of water, and each is true and all lie.

A shadow follows her. She has no proof, but she knows, as bones know their breaking stress.

Whatever else one might think of poets, they are excellent barometers for metaphysical shenanigans. Not as good as proper prophets, but these are fallen times.

Gods, I love sports. All the excitement of real news, only it doesn’t matter so you don’t have to worry about it.

Adventure works in any strand. It calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.

Engineers: they spend so much time solving physical problems and obeying physical rules, they forget that nonphysical phenomena obey rules every bit as strict.” Tara.

If we’re to be at war, we might as well entertain one another.

So easy to look out at the world through warped glass and think the world was warped itself. Easy, too, to live in a warped world and forget that, with effort, you could make crooked lines straight.

Sometimes you have to hold a person, though they’ll mistake embrace for strangulation.

So you assume we go around painting ourselves with pitch and swooping from rooftops to devour innocents, and call ourselves things like Shale Swiftwing, Beloved of the Goddess, Scout-in-Shadows.