Quotes from Laura Anne Gilman

You have no idea how to drown, so you're gonna swim.

You planned as much as you could, then you tap-danced like mad.

Nothing was ever wasted, and nothing was learned in vain.

The devil might not take him for a fool, but he was assuredly a madman. He

mobs were the worst of our guts strangling our hearts.

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

Rumor had it an Appalachian cave-dragon had eaten him.

You could not choose where your heart went. You could only suffer the consequences.

Power. Responsibility. The lesson she'd never quite learned: be careful what you ask for, for the devil will give you exactly that.

There is very little bad from which good cannot be pressed.

I am Isobel née Lacoyo Távora, Isobel of Flood, the Left Hand. My blood is on the devil's Contract, his sigil on my palm.