Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

And happiness is always louder than sadness.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.