Mercury's Son Quotes

“Valko found himself listening despite himself; the vestiges of his indoctrination triggering the compulsion to attend to the half-heard words, ‘On this day we hide our faces from the Sun and enter the shelters. Like a return to the ancestral caves. Perhaps, within, we can find an answer to our folly?’?”
― Luke E.T. Hindmarsh, Mercury's Son

“Underneath, came the subliminal message, undetectable to him, now his implant was dormant, but evident in the sudden slump of the shoulders of the passengers as they disembarked, carrying the miasma of despair with them.”
― Luke E.T. Hindmarsh, Mercury's Son

“The droning of the Sutras washed over Satoshi as he entered the Temple, the voice of the member of the faithful chosen for the honour catching with emotion, ‘And so did fire rain down upon Her face, for her children had betrayed her.’
‘Inane rubbish,’ Satoshi thought to himself as he donned the heavy metal chain that all penitents were required to wear.”
― Luke E.T. Hindmarsh, Mercury's Son

“All sanity — all trace of man — had vanished from the loose face. Drool poured from the corners of his mouth as he advanced on Valko — hands held wide in the aspect of beast.”
― Luke E.T. Hindmarsh, Mercury's Son

“It was a problem to be solved nothing more. If his psych profiles all showed a lack of compassion and empathy… well, neither was much regarded as an advantage in the pursuit of justice. Whatever that was.”
― Luke E.T. Hindmarsh, Mercury's Son

“Cresting the peaks, the transpod descended on the other side — down, down until they ghosted over the corpse of the heartlands, which lacked even the fetid microbial life to animate the cadaver. Absent rot, the land lay lifeless, like some mummified king fallen from grace, hollowed and shrouded in a mantle of radioactive dust.”
― Luke E.T. Hindmarsh, Mercury's Son

“Sometimes it'd happened on its own. An instant overload of flashbacks. They talked of PTSD, psychosis, Amok Disorder. Veterans called it going killcrazy. Fisher had called it berserkrgang. That was Lunar War Syndrome.”
― Luke E.T. Hindmarsh, Mercury's Son

“Compassion bled away, as did his insight.”
― Luke E.T. Hindmarsh, Mercury's Son