Caylah Coffeen

“Come now, I hear you called him a soft-spoken hypocrite. What did he call you to prompt that?'
Cliopher bit his lip. 'A reasonable man.'
'A strike to the heart! My dear Kip, do not look so mulish. I would never stoop so low as to call you reasonable. You are quite the most radical idealist I have ever known-or at least, the only sane one.”
― Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor

“I took a coaster without being told. Ann was very particular about rings on the highly polished oak table. The coaster I'd selected was imprinted with a close-up of bin Laden, after SEAL Team Six had finished with him. James liked to keep mementos from operations he'd had a hand in, and since wearing a necklace of ears was no longer in vogue, he'd settled for specially designed coasters.”
― Don Bentley, Without Sanction

“The book of censored poetry was the only thing he'd ever stolen from the Palace.
Well. Except for the government, of course.”
― Victoria Goddard, At the Feet of the Sun

“Fitzroy laughed merrily. 'No one hear? When a god asks you a question, and your voice lifted up in an answer that cracked through the air like thunder? I have walked into stories before, Cliopher Mdang, and I know a legend when I see on spun around me. My dear Kip! No one in that marketplace could have missed that encounter.”
― Victoria Goddard, At the Feet of the Sun