Chad

“Anyway the trick to life is, if you don’t like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops.”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

“The canals went gray and turgid, thickening like blood in the veins of a ripening corpse.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“I like this kind of place, where you’re in between one thing and another. Hallways, waiting rooms, lobbies and so on; rooms where nothing is actually supposed to happen. It relieves a lot of pressure and lets me think.”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

“to shore, a single bright light skimming over the water. She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place, the dial turned just one or two degrees.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven