Hemlock & Silver
Quotes from the Book
Trust people. But verify that they’re not idiots.
You know how the undecided tend to want to do all sorts of things? One day they want to be a farmer, the next a great scholar, the next a politician? I never really outgrew that.
So are you a boy or a girl?" "I'm a maid," Alex said.
You know, I should have foreseen that killing all of the major gods would have some repercussions.
You lost your marbles and now you want to find them?
I had a bit of a habit of losing myself while perusing stationary.
Your goal in creating a hypothesis isn't to prove it right, but to prove it wrong.
I disliked the sky because the sunlight was too bright, the night too dark to read in, and it tended to rain on occasion, which ruined my books.
I’d heard someone say that the only two certainties in life were death and taxes. Obviously they had never tried applying an army of the undead to those trying to collect those taxes.
Mostly it was all the exposed, necrotic flesh. They tended to attract flies, ticks, and other small insects. The rotting meat was otherwise perfectly fine. Some people believed that zombies were unclean and dangerous, but those people had never conducted proper research into the matter. In fact, dead bodies were less likely to spread sickness than living ones. They didn’t sneeze on people nearly as much.
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About RavensDagger
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In the distant past, a time of magic and swordplay, there lived Harold, the mightiest lich of all, a master of arcane sciences, and a challenger of gods. After reaching the pinnacle of his power and finding it surprisingly bland, Harold waged a cataclysmic war against the gods, aiming to shatter the very system that confined him.Then, he took a nap.An incredibly long nap that ends with a jolt, thanks to an unwitting adventurer who trips into Harold's crypt. Blinking into the torchlight, Harold finds a world he barely recognizes. No more swords and sorcery, but a universe buzzing with cultivation, celestial sects, and far too many pretentious dialogues about the path to godhood.Harold is no naïve cultivator, he's an ancient lich with a single to slide back into his uninterrupted eternal slumber. But the cacophony of quarreling sects and smug martial artists seems determined to keep him aw
Book details
- First published
- 2023
- Author
- RavensDagger
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Goodreads rating
- 4.15 (3k ratings)
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