Andre

“I heard Ghrelin’s voice continue beside me, whispering, “So I wonder
now. I wonder—what does that make us?”
“I…I beg pardon, sir?” I asked.
I turned and saw him smiling sadly at me through the glass of his helm.
“What does it mean,” he said, “when the line that once connected us to the
inscrutable and ineffable instead coils about, forms a great loop—and then
comes back to us?”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, A Drop of Corruption

“Because all the characters in this story—like all of humanity, apparently—have a little blank spot in their heads that says, “Kings. What a good idea.” The idea is powerful, and seductive, and should not be underestimated. To be a civilization of any worth, however, means acknowledging the idea—and then condemning it as laughably, madly stupid. May we come to live in such a worthier world, and soon.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, A Drop of Corruption

“Always remember, although the unimaginative see life as a thread stretched from one point to another, birth to death, a life truly lived is a glorious tangle. One is never lost. And if one is lucky, one is never found, either.”
― Travis Baldree, Brigands & Breadknives

“There are some things you just can’t scrape off your shoe, no matter how hard you try.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, City of Last Chances