Howling Dark (The Sun Eater #2)

by Christopher Ruocchio

You can float on it, you can swim a little, but be careful. Grief is drowning. Grief is deep water. Say it.”

That is why the best teachers are students always, and the best students are never fully educated.

There is civilization: its cornerstone a grave.

They knew what they were. The very foolish might look upon such creatures and, sneering, say their wealth had corrupted them. It is easy for those without wealth to pretend at morality, as if they would not themselves make depraved choices given the means. There is no morality in poverty. It is only that wealth gives the immoral greater opportunity for abuse. Given the means, how many souls would make pilgrimage to Vorgossos? How many trillions?

I do not know what it says of a man that he might linger for hours before a painting of a garden and yet ignore the flowers themselves—but