Seven Blades in Black
Sam Sykes
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Now, it’s certainly not true for *every* woman, but the ones I have had the good fortune to know in my life have all followed this rule. If you need a favor, you bring her flowers. If you need her forgiveness, you bring her jewelry. And if you need both, you bring her a book.”
“People were noisome, demanding, judgmental. Books gave everything and asked nothing more than to be taken care of.”
“No one ever gets the death they want,” I replied. “Just the one they deserve.”
“Courageous read a lot of books. That’s probably why he was so angry all the time.”
“Just because something is religious does not necessarily make it insane.” She studied the writing and hummed. “Though this particular something is decidedly fucking nuts.”
“Because justice isn’t for the victim, is it? It’s not for the girl crying every night or the boy burying his father. It’s for the killer, it’s for the judge, it’s for the shits like you who want to feel like you’re above it all, like forgiving a killer makes up for not being able to protect his victims.” I spat on the floor. “A man kills and you fawn over him and wonder what went wrong. A man dies and you shrug and step over the corpse.”
“You wear ignorance like a crown as you feast upon a thickheaded fantasy of lies,”
“There are others, but the end result is that most Vagrants showing up where you live will ruin your day. Not me, of course. A girl like me tends to ruin your whole week.”
“The song of lightning followed me, an angry, screeching verse torn from twenty ragged throats.”
“The loudest sound in the world is a man of faith beginning to doubt. And over it, I couldn’t hear anything else.”
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