The Fall of Koli (Rampart Trilogy #3)

by M.R. Carey

The people of the before-times had been so rich they could use their tech not just for weighty things but to give them pleasure in an idle moment. I wondered: did they know they lived in Edenguard, or did they dream of a higher Heaven still?

I grieved for him, I think more than his daughters did. But they had lived with him for longer and knew him in different ways than I did. Grief’s not a debt we owe. It wells up or it doesn’t.