Howling Dark (The Sun Eater #2)

by Christopher Ruocchio

“It’s all right to be angry or sick or scared, or whatever it is you’re feeling. But you can’t let it crush you, all right?”

Holy Mother Earth, keep us and protect us in Darkness and in the land of strangers, I thought. From the grip of the machines, O Mother deliver us.

Those lost to us do not return, nor the years turn back. Rather it is that we carry a piece of those lost to us within ourselves, or on our backs.

Nothing old women do is a game, and it is a profound mistake to believe that one must care about a thing to be subject to it.

Women are ever the judges of men, our jury and, though their hands seldom grasp the knife, our executioners.