Samuel

“What harsh sour souls they must have had, these frightening and frightened folk, creating for themselves in the lush fertile plains of India such a Supreme Soviet of a city!”
― Robert Silverberg, Sailing to Byzantium

“Trees are normally very general and all-inclusive with their wisdom pearls. When a tree decides to talk to you, it's a very, very big deal, as if the world stops, as if you are scooped up and held in a snow globe, weightless and womb-like. I felt their vibrations in my feathers, in the flutter of my little black heart.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“The Yoruba say “o d’oju ala” when someone dies. I will see you in dreams.”
― Tade Thompson, Rosewater

“I hear music. Is that asshole piping music through the killer robot? I can see the marketing campaign: one hundred tunes to die to.”
― Tade Thompson, Rosewater