The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true. - Lois McMaster Bujold

And so men organized themselves for the sake of their technology as they never had for their principles. The sea’s politics were unarguable.

Pen cleared his throat. “Do you normally try to murder people you’ve just met?” Although that was what a soldier did, he supposed.

Words won't break bones seemed like the lying-est lie Barr had ever been told, as a child. Bones knit eventually, he knew from close personal experience. The scars of slander, an insult not just delivered but believed, might never heal in a lifetime.