Ian Tregillis Quotes

It's a debate," he spat, "over truth. Which truth is more true? The inspiring myth or the bleak, blood-caked reality?

You’re no stranger to spinning gold from the hay of human misery, are you?

Such were the brittle threads of a relationship built not on trust but on a slurry of fear, mutual codependence, and self-interest.

Have you any idea how long and painful my convalescence was?"\nBerenice shrugged. "Have you any idea how little I care?

First, the fact he awoke at all. Cogito, ergo how the hell aren’t I dead?

I am a pragmatist, said Mab. I do what must be done to make a better world.
“Oh, I’m sure you tell yourself that. But so does the woman who tortured Lilith. You sound exactly like her, in fact. The difference is that Berenice actually means it. She doesn’t use the pretense to justify her cruelty.”

How have you acquired such intimate knowledge of our kind's innermost construction?"\n"You know exactly how. You need me because I'm not burdened with a system of mores that hobbles my inquiries. So you can drop the indignation and make yourselves useful.

They were old enough to know such things were forbidden, yet young enough still to find the forbidden irresistible rather than terrifying.

The fallacy of your personal bias is inherent in your choice of words.

It isn’t courtly politics if somebody doesn’t get a dagger in the back.

And, as was so often the case, the history taught to children was oversimplified, watered down, and ofttimes counterfactual.

Well," he said, "you must be feeling very proud of yourself right now."\n"It occurs to me that I might be an underappreciated genius." She paused to clutch the mast again during a particularly hard gust. "But I'll tell you something. It's not so wonderful, learning you were right all along to suspect the world is conspiring against you.

Every additional second the king didn’t take a bullet in the eye seemed a good sign.

How could you comprehend things whose existence you doubt?

Alchemy was useful but never compassionate.