The Home Secretary appears to be doodling electric chairs on her blotter, eyes downcast to spare her neighbors the psychotic giggles: clearly her personal coach has been reminding her not to swallow baby mice in public again.


“She’d forgotten what love could do, as it threaded its roots through her entire soul, as it tugged and pulled at her thoughts, obsession ripening like seductive fruit. She felt only its life, thickening within her, claiming all she was.”
― Memories of Ice
― Memories of Ice

“LUCIFER: I pity thee who lovest what must perish.
CAIN: And I thee who lov'st nothing”
― Cain A Mystery
CAIN: And I thee who lov'st nothing”
― Cain A Mystery

“Unwitnessed. There was crime in that notion. A profound injustice against which he railed. In silence. Like every other soldier in the Bonehunters. Maybe. No, I am not mistaken – I see something in their eyes. I can see it. We rail against injustice, yes. That what we do will be seen by no-one. Our fate unmeasured.”
― Reaper's Gale
― Reaper's Gale

“To love in absence is to float on ever still waters. No sudden currents, no treacherous tides, no possibility of drowning.”
― Reaper's Gale
― Reaper's Gale

“Compassion existed when and only when one could step outside oneself, to suddenly see the bars from inside the cage.”
― The Bonehunters
― The Bonehunters
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