Flesh and Fire: Book One of The Vineart...
A source page for quotes linked to Laura Anne Gilman.
“Call it not paranoia, but caution.”
“I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.”
“Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.”
“Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.”
“Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.”
“The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.”