Six Wakes

by Mur Lafferty

The future body was all that mattered. The past shouldn’t be there, staring you in the face with dead eyes. She shuddered.

“Running headlong into things before you have all the information, that’s foolhardy.”

“I like giving to people who really need it, and those who earn it, not lazy people who won’t work.

Idiot. Principles are easy to have when you have a place to live and regular meals.

Politics is almost never violent toward the people who are actually making the political decisions.”

I’m beyond saving, Joanna. You can’t confess the loss of a soul. You can’t do penance when there is nothing to heal inside you.”