The Last Murder at the End of the World

by Stuart Turton

Love is simply a matter of what people need and what they lack. It’s two broken things fitting together for a time.

Sometimes the only way to win a game is to let the pieces think they’re the ones playing it.

there’s no optimal way of handling extreme emotion in humans, which I’ve come to regard as the greatest of evolution’s failures.

False hope can always be depended on for control.”