K.J. Parker

“Aidi nodded. “Lying to yourself’s always a problem,” he said.”

— K.J. Parker

He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave…

— K.J. Parker

That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there…

— K.J. Parker

“he couldn’t even write his name. When he was Emperor, he had to sign documents with a stencil.”

— K.J. Parker

In politics, it's what isn't said that matters.

— K.J. Parker

“It’s the way my mind works, when it works at all. Things to do today: settle down, achieve serenity, live happily ever…

— K.J. Parker

“For what it was worth, she got the impression that Niessa liked her, or at least approved of her, in the same…

— K.J. Parker

“Obviously, there’s no way of making money that doesn’t hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant…

— K.J. Parker

The easiest way to do something is properly.

— K.J. Parker

“His mother collected medicines, rather in the way a boy collects coins or seals or arrowheads; one or two genuine pieces, along…

— K.J. Parker

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in…

— K.J. Parker

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

— K.J. Parker

“We hold that you can’t own anything that four strong men can’t lift.”

— K.J. Parker

“in an ideal world, you’d be able to pick beef puddings from a beef pudding tree.”

— K.J. Parker

“Great art, I've always felt, is like a pearl; thousands of layers of creativity and sensibility built up around an inner core…

— K.J. Parker

If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

— K.J. Parker

The enemy is never more unnerving than when he's invisible.

— K.J. Parker

“Age is irrelevant where two people have deep, sincere feelings for each other.”

— K.J. Parker

“I’d finally given her what she wanted, the elixir of eternal youth, effected by the removal of her internal fire (the catalyst…

— K.J. Parker