You can find soulblades aplenty at your local murder hobo…

“I’ve gone from manager to knight in two days. I think I deserve a bump in salary.”

— Max Gladstone

“We no longer empathize with the victim, lie with him on the slab. We forget, and believe forgetfulness is humane. We fool ourselves.”

— Max Gladstone

“The trouble with atheism," Temoc said, "is that it offers a limited range of curses.”

— Max Gladstone

“Shame I’m all out of virgins and aurochs. What the hell’s the plural of ‘aurochs’ anyway?”

— Max Gladstone

“That wasn’t being a kid, not the way the mainlander birthday cards meant, and after you’d been that you could never be a kid…

— Max Gladstone

“You can win the world, she said, if you’re willing to lose your soul.”

— Max Gladstone

“The two left wheels of Tara and Abelard’s carriage lurched off the ground as the driver swung them into the narrow gap between a…

— Max Gladstone

“Simple accident: a zombie-crewed containership from Southern Kath wrecked in a storm. The containership had been hired to transport a horror from beyond the…

— Max Gladstone

“It’s art. If you’re looking at it, it’s working.”

— Max Gladstone

“And pretty is not even the right word. She burns. She's a verb.”

— Max Gladstone

“What if you could peel a pearl? Take a fine knife and a magnifying glass and strip the layers of glint and glimmer year…

— Max Gladstone

“Everyone likes to be needed.”

— Max Gladstone

“Sanity was the gap between perception and desire, and that gap had closed.”

— Max Gladstone

“There are many worlds, and one.”

— Max Gladstone

“Beetle-black iron hissed and popped and spouted steam. Guards marched atop the train cars, watchful. One sang a war song in Talbeg Kai couldn’t…

— Max Gladstone