The Hollow Season Quotes

“On the fire escape the rain hit the grating in a sound like a conversation conducted entirely in consonants.”
― Simon Kael, The Hollow Season

“The rain came down at a diagonal. The particular diagonal it came down when the wind off the river had opinions.”
― Simon Kael, The Hollow Season

“He had a scar on his left eyebrow, thin and pale, the width of a sentence someone had started and thought better of.”
― Simon Kael, The Hollow Season

“Three ribs — he heard them before he processed them, a sound like green wood snapping, and then the white-hot arithmetic of it tried to empty his lungs entirely — and he kept moving because he was already committed and the commitment was the only thing that gave the sacrifice any meaning.”
― Simon Kael, The Hollow Season

“The amber eyes were level and unhurried, carrying the patience of someone who had learned early that stillness was not the absence of feeling but its most effective disguise.”
― Simon Kael, The Hollow Season