Reid Butler

“When we chat, it is no longer we who speak…. we are fashioning ourselves then in the likeness of other people, and not of a self that differs from them.”
― Dan Simmons, Olympos

“The poets say that one’s fears grow less with trial, that we become men without fear if tried enough. I have not found it to be so. Rather, on each occasion we are tested, we become stronger than our fears.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Howling Dark

“I—who had no hope left to give—said, “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.” “Is that . . . English?” Rinehart asked, clearly not understanding.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Ashes of Man

“a human being is the sum of many parts”
― Nick Harkaway, Gnomon