Max Gladstone said this quote

Teo had once claimed that human history began with a storm: the interval between lightning and thunder, between flash and rumble felt in the body's core, was primitive man's first experiences of time -- the awakening of consciousness, the birth of the gods.

~ Max Gladstone

You live in a grim universe.”“That’s risk management for you.

~ Max Gladstone

Gods, like men, can die. They just die harder, and smite the earth with their passing.

~ Max Gladstone

They found the Infirmary of Justice much as they had left it: white institutional walls, too-bright floors, and a reassuring smell of antiseptic. Reassuring at least to Tara, because the smell signalled that the people running this infirmary knew about antiseptic.

~ Max Gladstone