“Not a trace of emotion on her face. Not a flicker of a change in expression. Did she not care, or was she wearing an exceptional mask? Funny, just how easily those masks came to people. Costumes were nothing in… — wildbow Copy Share Image
“Another possibility is that it really is just me lying to myself, but that lie will become truth over time. People all over this city feign confidence, and that becomes something concrete. You can become the mask you wear on… — 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 Image
“I like to think people are stronger than they appear at first glance. Perhaps the same goes for cities as well?” — wildbow Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Everyone likes the manipulative assholes after they’ve had a chance to do their manipulating.” — wildbow Copy Share Image
“On this violent, brutish little planet of ours, it’s the survivors who wind up the strongest ones of all.” — wildbow Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
