{"author":"Ash Gray","author_id":"Ash+Gray","total_quotes":58,"quotes":[{"text":"Growing up learning of distant lands and their bloody histories, Wareska had quickly noticed how pointing to someone else as unquestionably worse was a widely common justification for many atrocities.","author":"Ash Gray","tags":["fantasy-fiction","wisdom"],"id":1433,"author_id":"Ash+Gray"},{"text":"Quinn dropped her hand and avoided Thalcu’s eye. “I . . . I don’t want to kill you,” she said to the floor. “Not if I could save you.”The woman smiled gently at Quinn, her lips curling behind her oxygen mask. “I will not really die,” she said, drawing Quinn’s surprised gaze. She looked at Quinn contently a moment and went on, “Do you know how worlds are born? From the first breath of a star. We are made of starlight. We can not bear to look into the sun, into the thing that birthed us, anymore than we can bear to look upon our parents in the throes of passion. It is our point of origin, and to it, we all must return.","author":"Ash Gray","tags":["afterlife","aliens","birth","death","science-fiction"],"id":5002,"author_id":"Ash+Gray"},{"text":"Return me safely to my home,” the princess said, “and I shall reward you with your weight in eggs.”\tOlorun snorted derisively. “You’re joking, right?”\tThe woman’s eyes flitted in embarrassment. \t“Now wait a minute,” said Helianthus. “We’re talkin’ eggs here. What sort of eggs? Ostrich eggs?”\tNeferre made an impatient noise. “Hel! She doesn’t have any eggs! Unless they’re hidden in a very . . . Delicate place.” Neferre grinned at the princess. “Tell me your eggs are hidden where I think they’re hidden.","author":"Ash Gray","tags":["elves","fantasy","fantasy-fiction","humor","humorous","princess","princesses"],"id":16212,"author_id":"Ash+Gray"},{"text":"Yes,” Lisa said with the usual blank honestly. She frowned. “Was that a sincere question? Or a scolding rhetorical question akin to Harilotecca’s speech patterns?","author":"Ash Gray","tags":["humor","robots","sci-fi"],"id":19053,"author_id":"Ash+Gray"},{"text":"Varzo looked with shame at her boots. “Look, I wasn’t serious, alright? It was just a thought.”Mercy shook her head. “Shitty thoughts become shitty actions, kid. You really gone your entire life without recognizing there's ah link between the two?","author":"Ash Gray","tags":["aliens","hatred","racism","science-fiction"],"id":19665,"author_id":"Ash+Gray"},{"text":"Incase the title was misleading, this is the story of Qorth. He was an alien, but he was more normal, more boring, more goofy, and more ho-hum than any human I’d ever known . . . To the point that I sometimes wonder if he was really even an alien. To be fair, he did have “magical” otherworldly powers and some weird traits, like pointed ears. It rained when he was sad. His eyes were solid black, which really creeped me out in the beginning but, eh, I got used to it. He had weird tastes in food, like he would put ketchup on pancakes, and animals were sock puppets to him. The night I found him, it was the animals who led me to him.","author":"Ash Gray","tags":["alien","humor","science-fiction","science-fiction-romance"],"id":25618,"author_id":"Ash+Gray"},{"text":"I made a noise of disgust, and I think I would have stormed out if I knew how to open the door.","author":"Ash Gray","tags":["funny","humor","humorous"],"id":34272,"author_id":"Ash+Gray"},{"text":"I never thought I’d ever leave Zerc. But after knowing Cricket, it occurred to me that I had no reason to stay. I had no family, no friends aside from her. I never even spoke to Enkai until she brought us together. It was she who first inspired me to dream of actually seeing those worlds I spent my every waking moment reading about. Her and her wild heart, her laughing spirit, so bright in her eyes whenever she spoke of her travels and all the wondrous places she had seen. When I was a boy, I envied her for her adventures. When I became a man, I only pitied her.","author":"Ash Gray","tags":["adventure","epic-fantasy"],"id":47604,"author_id":"Ash+Gray"},{"text":"Varzo shrugged. “My people have given them good reason to be biased. The last time you were open and trusting . . . We invaded,” she said unhappily. “Yeah,” muttered the boy just as unhappily. “But while there is good reason for caution, there is never a good reason for hatred, hmm?” He glanced at Varzo and lifted his brows meaningfully.","author":"Ash Gray","tags":["aliens","hate","hatred","racism","science-fiction","wisdom"],"id":48009,"author_id":"Ash+Gray"},{"text":"I’m a dot in the grand scheme of things. I don’t matter, not even to the other dots.","author":"Ash Gray","tags":["humor","humorous","spirituality"],"id":56865,"author_id":"Ash+Gray"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}