Howling Dark (The Sun Eater #2)

by Christopher Ruocchio

There is no morality in poverty. It is only that wealth gives the immoral greater opportunity for abuse.

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—

Eternity is the chief quality of high art. Depending on no moment, such art belongs to every moment, and so takes us for a time from our time—allowing us to touch eternity for our fleeting instant.

Men are only men when you take their uniforms away.”

In truth we are each a little legion, a pack of little personae—each one-eyed in its attentions and single-minded in its aim.

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

Joy is rare, a thing always of the now, existing without regard for time past or time future, and without depending on them.