Tales of the Sun Eater, Volume 1 Quotes

“History is a funny thing. It’s not the truth. The truth exists only in the world itself, and though some men speak it, others do not.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Tales of the Sun Eater, Volume 1

“Progress is never without loss.”
“On the contrary,” I said, and it was my tutor who spoke through me, a response out of childhood, “any progress which is accompanied by loss is no progress at all.”
“Spoken just like an Imperial dog.”
“Or like someone who reads.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Tales of the Sun Eater, Volume 1

“light brings order to creation, and that in darkness order grows ever less. The magi teach us that before the First Cause and the cataclysm that birthed the universe there was only Dark, and that it was from that darkness—the infinite chaos and potential that exists in the absence of light—that anything might happen. And so everything had happened, and the universe had emerged, birthed not—as the ancient pagans would have it—by the declaration of a deity, but born of the limitless chaos that comes in the absence of light. That is why we fear the Dark. Not for what it contains, but for the threat that it might contain anything.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Tales of the Sun Eater, Volume 1

“The magi teach us that before the First Cause and the cataclysm that birthed the universe there was only Dark, and that it was from that darkness—the infinite chaos and potential that exists in the absence of light—that anything might happen. And so everything had happened, and the universe had emerged, birthed not—as the ancient pagans would have it—by the declaration of a deity, but born of the limitless chaos that comes in the absence of light.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Tales of the Sun Eater, Volume 1

“But I knew the truth, I knew that those men who—fleeing Imperial control—had fled to the blackness between the stars, to rogue planets and lost moons far from the light of Imperial order, had bought their freedom with a piece of their own humanity.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Tales of the Sun Eater, Volume 1