Remaking the world wasn’t always a stage show and a cheering crowd. Politics was just warfare by other means. The losers didn’t get to hold rallies.

Again, Syd had that feeling, the past as an echo, repeating itself as it faded. The poor had longed for Jubilee to save them from the powerful, and now the one-time patrons longed for the...

He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you...

At the birth of a new world, there will be always pain.

They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn’t compel it to be paid?

… but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370)

Being alive and living aren’t the same.

Then he pulled Liam forward and pressed their lips together. The kiss was no longer than a second, but in that second, any walls between them fell. Liam’s body was Syd’s body; Syd’s mind was...

Yes, he wanted to tell Krystof, it will hurt. Even if you don’t get sick like them. It will hurt.

Amnesia was a soldier’s best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.