All Books

“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings. I had grasped a power that no man before me had ever possessed, yet I found myself more alone than ever. The question is not what a man may do when he is invisible—it is what he may become.”

“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
“In the jungle, the strong devour the weak—and here, men are no different.”
“I aimed for the public’s heart, and by accident, I hit it in the stomach.”

“There are things in this world that can’t be explained—whispers in the dark, shadows that move when no one is there. I didn’t believe it, not until that night on the barge, when the air grew still, and the truth revealed itself in ways I’ll never forget.”

“Some secrets are meant to stay buried, but the river has a way of bringing them to the surface.”

“He had the power to create illusions so vivid they seemed real, and to make reality itself feel like an illusion.”

“A man who could control life and death, love and hatred, as though they were merely threads in the fabric of his dark tapestry.”

“‘There is no such thing as chance,’ he said, his voice as smooth as silk. ‘There is only the will, and those who lack it.’”

“A man stood in the queue, anonymous, unremarkable—until he slumped forward, dead. Murdered in plain sight. No one knew his name. No one saw a thing. How could that be?”

“To solve this case is to untangle the lives of everyone in that line—and to face the unsettling truth of what it means to be unseen.”

“There are depths in the human heart which no one can fathom. Beneath the veneer of respectability lie secrets that can shatter lives.”

“What appears to be an innocent cab ride on a foggy night may, in truth, carry the weight of a man’s fate—and the downfall of another’s soul.”

“In this city of wealth and shadows, justice is not always blind, and innocence is not always pure.”

“What is it like to wear a crown and carry its weight? To live in rags and dream of riches? We exchanged not just our clothes, but our lives—and with it came truths neither of us were prepared to face.”

“All that glitters is not gold, and all that is humble is not without worth. In the eyes of the world, we were prince and pauper. In the eyes of fate, we were simply boys seeking to understand our place in it.”

“Mother always said we must be brave, even when the world feels uncertain. By the railway, we discovered more than passing trains—we found kindness in strangers, courage in ourselves, and hope in the face of every challenge. ‘Stand firm,’ she told us, ‘and the world will meet you with its own strength.'”

“Every secret has a price. ‘The great stumbling block is trying to find a clue to something that’s meant to be hidden.’ But in a world of shadows, even the smallest slip can unravel the most dangerous of lies. Will the truth be worth the risk?”

“The perfect society doesn’t exist—not when there are people like me to prove otherwise. I’m James diGriz, the so-called ‘Stainless Steel Rat,’ and I’ve made a career out of slipping through cracks no one else sees. They said the galaxy was flawless. I showed them it was fragile.”