But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, ‘The last truth is that there is no magic.
Life is what happens, Magnus, no matter what you expect or want.
The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can’t screw it up.
If you’re going to risk dying, there’s no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.
Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must? be the only solution.
Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.
My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer –.
Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.
The first love is the difficult love.
Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.
Don’t assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.
Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.
Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.
The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.
Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.
The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.
You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.
ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.
In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.