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With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace. Tether all that to the knock-out image at the heart of the novel-Deepgate, a Gothic city built on a network of chains over a great abyss-and you have urban fantasy at its best.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
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People are always talking about freedom. Â Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around. Â Course the more you live a certain way, the less it feel like freedom. Â Me, uhm, I can change during the course of a day. Â I wake and I'm one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. Â I don't know who I am most of the time.
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And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.
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When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes.
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I think a lot of the time having someone who you, not base yourself on, but can see yourself being after a few years, you can get quite blinded by that, in the same way love can be.
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I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
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Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)
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As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.)
