Howling Dark (Sun Eater #2)

by Christopher Ruocchio

Have I said that what we perceive as darkness is only the chaos that came—without light’s order—before Creation itself? That is why we imagine anything might be lurking in the darkness.

“You have to play like you mean to keep playing. You have to play in a way that protects your self.”

“You are what is left when all of that”—he gestured over his shoulder, as though all my names and the people who named me were smoke as well—“is gone. You are the part of you that survives these changes.

A man is the sum of his memories—and more—he is the sum of all those others he has met, and what he learned from them. And that is an encouraging thought, for that knowledge and those memories survive and are part of us through every storm, and every little death.

For it is appropriate that one pause in contemplating the abyss. One should pause before the plunge, for only then has he any hope of landing where he wills.