The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter Quotes

“These mod cons, despite the brief excitement they generated, were basically chutes leading down to clay pipes, which in turn acted as simple conduits to the river, depositing the waste of the rich next to the waste of the poor, where the distinction was lost on the kholics, who attempted, each day, to clean it up.”
― Brent Hayward, The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter

“Lunacy attracting lunacy. Then, of course, they encourage each other, I suppose, validate each other.”
― Brent Hayward, The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter

“Idealism and naiveté were youthful cousins. Foresight and the considerations of age and experience often brought inaction, compromise, second-guessing; the ability to foresee the extent of actions--to understand implications of cause and effect--could effectively thwart spontaneous, if impractical, decisions.”
― Brent Hayward, The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter

“What I'm trying to say is that there's more to a story than events taking place in one location, to one person. You need to look at everything, at the same time, in the entire universe. Look at every person, every creature. Turn over every rock.

See? In one glistening instant, plucked from the stream of time as it passes by: countless episodes, from a myriad of human lives, all vital, all entangled in a shared moment.

So many threads...”
― Brent Hayward, The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter