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“The quietest people have the loudest minds”
― SG

“The quietest people have the loudest minds”
― Stephen Hawking

“He supposed he’d never get used to it; the taste of a thousand – a million – who knew how many – scorched and vaporised bodies, and chemistry; from dust to dust, my father, O father; from dust to dust, an organic offering to the sun, to night, to all the other suns and their planets and their moons; this cocktail of dust that tasted and smelled like death. How could anyone ever get used to it?”
― Adam J. Smith, Neon Sands

“It was ash on fingertips, and vast. Stepping upon it gave the impression that it had come not from below, buffed by millions of years of wind slicing against rock, but rather from above; that perhaps it had drifted down and settled here. The layers undulated from an inch to hundreds of feet thick. Red storms swept and swirled, colouring the atmosphere with grains so light it took days until the air became clear again: shifting from bloodshot and murky to a jaundiced yellow, the sepia sun somewhere above the thick cloud-layer.”
― Adam J. Smith, Neon Sands

“I never thought I’d be here alone, though. It never occurred to me I might have to venture into the darkness by myself. I unsnap my snowshoes and sit down in the snow, huddled up in my parka. I stare into the tunnel’s gaping maw as the light from the wind up flashlight slowly yellows and fades. I’m not sure I can go on.”
― R.A. Hakok, Among Wolves

“Unconsciousness is a teleporter. When the low-rider struck me on that winding road outside of Honaw and sent me flipping up into the air like a coin, heads over tails over heads over tails, I landed on a cotton-white mattress under starched-white sheets, my aunt asleep in a nearby chair.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“In the dictionary under ‘adolescence’ you’ll find a bunch of stuff about transitional periods and developmental phases, and that all may be accurate enough if you’re writing a paper for Health class, but only one word defines ‘adolescence’ and that word is ‘earthquake.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“That was light for you. Light was always nosing around, looking to explore, expose. Pull the blinds and in it comes. Open the door at night and out it goes. The dark was different. The dark liked exactly where it was.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“He was a bridge, like the rest of us were bridges, like Honaw was a great big bridge, on one side life and on the other death and beneath it the troll who wouldn’t let anybody pass.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“I remember my wheels bouncing on the asphalt and red earth gushing down the mountainside and lightning setting off thunderworks in the sky, everything loud, everything bright, Fourth of July in a bottomless Fall.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“Damn it - I’m just going to have a go. No one ever won a game without attacking the goal.” - Anton Slayne”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Dragon's Den

“The extraordinary is simply that—a little bit extra than ordinary. There is great power in that little bit extra.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“the young looked to the old and tried to blame them; the old looked to the young and despaired that nothing had changed and this was the world they’d brought them into.”
― Adam J. Smith, Neon Sands: A Dystopian Sci-fi: The Neon Sands Trilogy