Moon Rising Quotes

“chiseller,”
― Ian McDonald, Moon Rising

“colloquium”
― Ian McDonald, Moon Rising

“But I think there is a deeper lesson, which is that the law allows violence to settle disputes to show that violence never settles anything. Violence comes back again and again, down years and decades and centuries and so many lives.”
― Ian McDonald, Moon Rising

“The Cortas are the most egocentric, narcissist, arrogant – outright weird – pack of fucks I have ever met,’ Marina says. ‘And every second I am away from them, it kills me.”
― Ian McDonald, Moon Rising

“You’ve heard the talk; that he’s a wastrel, a playboy. But he is kind and he is brave. Much braver and kinder than me. He took the Moonrun. I never did that. He saved Kojo Asamoah’s life. He went back, in vacuum, to save him. Everyone forgets that about him. The Asamoahs didn’t.”
― Ian McDonald, Moon Rising

“The true legends are the broken ones: fragments of histories, tellings, embellishments, edits and re-edits. Truth abhors a narrative.”
― Ian McDonald, Moon Rising