Weapons have no need of friends. - N. K. Jemisin

This was what I’d asked her to give me. I had no right to complain just because it wasn’t what I wanted to hear.

It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy, it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all—but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

Syenite wonders if there is any point in hating a crazy man. It’s not like he’ll notice, anyway.