Ian Tregillis Quotes

We’ve drawn attention to ourselves with our obsessive need to stay inconspicuous.

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

If you're going to insist on giving perfectly logical and reasonable answers to stupid questions," she said, "you may put a dent in my delusions of genius.

Your family excels at being a pain in my ass. Are you certain you’re not part Dutch?

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

Alchemy was useful but never compassionate.

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.

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

I’ve learned to be wary when something makes you this excited.

But the speculation was pointless. The past was forever in the past.

You narrow-minded idiots have mistaken delaying the inevitable for a divinely bestowed right to survive…
You aren't noble survivors of a historical tragedy, you're a lingering curiosity of a bygone age. The last vestige of a primitive past. Dust to be swept away. The difference between you and I, dear Berenice, is that I recognized the broom for what it was. And got out of the way.

Sometimes the contortions required to spit on Occam’s razor were just as disturbing as the insights one yearned to avoid.

Perhaps there really was a God, and He was just as cruel as the humans He made in His form.

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

He didn’t trust them. But he did trust their greed.