The Lost Code Quotes

“History is always written to serve the powerful.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Lost Code

“The night felt like it had gone by so fast, yet every second of it was bright and burned into my mind, and I felt sure I would never forget any of it, almost like I'd left some part of me back there on that island, a piece carved out that wouldn't travel into whatever came next. It would just stay behind, living that night over and over.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Lost Code

“I felt something fall away inside. Some floor, and from beneath it boiled up something dark, black and bitter, craving vengeance.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Lost Code

“Time passed, unknowable amounts and I had no sense for it. There was just the blanket and grass, the cold of rain and the heat of Lilly like a small sun beside me, and we lay there until the clouds left and the SimStars reappeared.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Lost Code

“A hand closed over my wrist. I looked over, and there was Lilly, cast in moonlight and blue, hair snaking around her, a siren calling to me: 'come on.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Lost Code

“Shut up, butcher," snapped Aliah. 'We know what you are.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Lost Code