The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.

What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.

It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that something good could finally happen. But if you didn't? You missed this. This intense and prefect moment in which, while the world was almost literally going to hells all around you, hope and reality blended in a single, perfect note.

If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.