Max Gladstone

“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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Max Gladstone

“Everyone likes to be needed.”

— Max Gladstone

“You can find soulblades aplenty at your local murder hobo supply store;”

— 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…

— Max Gladstone

“You need more wildness in your life.”

— Max Gladstone

“They found the Infirmary of Justice much as they had left it: white institutional walls, too-bright floors, and a reassuring smell of…

— Max Gladstone

“You never appreciate things so much as in their absence.”

— Max Gladstone

“I’m on a quest, I think,” he said, not having realised this before. “Or something like one.” “Those went out of fashion…

— Max Gladstone

“Someone else had made her a weapon, but she made herself kind.”

— Max Gladstone

“A page lay on his desk. His fingers held a pen. With these tools he built a world. Perhaps the world he…

— Max Gladstone

“The God Wars had not been a pleasant time for Craftsmen and Craftswomen around the world. One day, you’re a simple thaumaturge,…

— Max Gladstone

“We wait, and we rise; we move, and the earth trembles.”

— Max Gladstone

“Love lasts longer than either party to that love might want.”

— Max Gladstone