Saladin Ahmed

One can only know as much as one has lived to know, though it is certainly possible to learn a great deal less than this.

When one faces two ghuls, waste no time wishing for fewer.

I have served Almighty God as best as I can. I have failed at times, but "Perfection is the palace in which God alone lives."

Ahhh, God's balls! The Horrible Halt! Adoulla pronounced the Dhamsawaati term for the complete standstill of traffic with a familiar disgust.

No, it wasn’t nothing Christian. But my momma taught me that another man’s religion was like another man’s wife—none of my goddamn business. That

Simple things ought not to be taken for granted.

Making each other’s tea was half the reason they had such a happy marriage.