Love is like sleep. One can never seize, never force love.
Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?
To piss across water is to piss across your reflection
Our words always paint two portraits when we describe our families to others. Outsiders cannot but see the small peeves and follies that wrinkle our relationships with our loved ones. The claims we ma...
Dreams drawn from the sheath.
Nau-Cayûti’s eyes gleamed like bared teeth in the gloom.
For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.
Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. —
Almost all men prized the familiar path over the true.
All men are greater than dead men.
The hot glare of evening winked into the chill glow of dusk in a heartbeat
Where power was perceived, power was given.
There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.
Only madmen and historians, he said, believe their lies.
Ignorance is trust. —
If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.
I am Cnaiur urs Skiötha, breaker-of-horses-and-men!,
A lifetime of cannibal hatred
You realized those truths that cut against the interests of the powerful were called lies, and that those lies that served those interests were called truths.
You can only believe so many lies before becoming one of them.