Michelle Sagara West quotes:

She had managed to go almost three weeks without being late. Admittedly on two of those days she'd perambulated around the office like someone doing a good imitation of the walking dead - but she'd been timely walking dead, damn it.

There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been.

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

Is this some sort of test?Everything that doesn't kill you is.Mind you, he added, surviving doesn't always mean you passed.

There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.