“Indifference is a well that never runs dry, and as good a word for evil as was ever composed.”

“Mirrors are useless for reflecting who you are.”

“To what do I attribute our decline? It's far easier to be shocking than charming.”

“One just voice is greater than an army.”

“Indifference is a well that never runs dry, and as good a word for evil as was ever composed.”

“Ian looked skyward to see the firedrake soaring overhead. Its mass was a black deluge, an eclipse of aberrant origins, and its wings were tautly wound, like a spider’s web. Scales that shown like bejeweled armor glistened upon its body. Its tail crashed against the air; the storm surge of an impetuous sea. The shadow it cast was an aperture of dementia that ripped asunder the sanity of those who watched. Astride the beast’s spine, rode a figure that resembled a man, but with such grandeur at his disposal, appeared a living god.”