“Theo scratched the animal under the collar, and watched it crane its head to one side, enjoying the contact. It helped, oddly enough. Having contact with another living creature without all of the issues and hassles of dealing with people.… — wildbow Copy Share Image
“Okay, here’s a cheat I learned in a leadership seminar. It’s called active listening. Someone says something, a complaint, or a criticism, or they’re… — wildbow Copy Share
“I like to think people are stronger than they appear at first glance. Perhaps the same goes for cities as well?” — wildbow Copy Share
“Looking at this stuff, hearing you describe it all, I’m starting to think that maybe we’ll destroy ourselves in the end. Infighting, stupidity, revenge,… — wildbow Copy Share
“You want to neuter us,” Director Tagg said. “Stop us from policing the criminals who run this city.” “As my client put it, Director,… — wildbow Copy Share
“Ruins. Places built up by man, painstaking, sometimes over centuries. Layer upon layer of human experience, history, and art, represented in stone and wood… — wildbow Copy Share
“Everyone likes the manipulative assholes after they’ve had a chance to do their manipulating.” — wildbow Copy Share
“On this violent, brutish little planet of ours, it’s the survivors who wind up the strongest ones of all.” — wildbow Copy Share
“It’s for love, in the end. Pettiest of all pursuits. Arrogance, greed, even revenge… they’re nobler, trust me. I’ve walked all those roads. But… — wildbow Copy Share
“Was he the only one who was just old enough to speak out, not yet so old and jaded that he acceded to authority… — wildbow Copy Share
“My hands were paralyzed, one wrapped around the handle of the Hyena’s sword, spikes sticking through the flesh and out the back of hand,… — wildbow Copy Share
“Then I think about how you went out, and I think… you know, it doesn’t balance out. One selfless deed, after all the shit… — wildbow Copy Share
“When you’re in that position, sometimes the only people willing to extend those second chances to you are the people who need them.” — wildbow Copy Share
“According to studies, clinically depressed individuals have a more accurate grasp of reality than the average person. We tell ourselves lies and layer falsehoods… — wildbow Copy Share
“Counting coup?” Leister asked. He was the sole subordinate that Vantage had brought along. Rime, by contrast, had brought Usher and Arbiter from her… — wildbow Copy Share