The Planets We Become Quotes

“I felt alive in the hands of the planet. It never stopped singing. Its very core hummed constantly. I lost myself in the notes, never alone even when the nearest cities were days away.”
― Nathaniel Luscombe, The Planets We Become: A Science Fantasy Novella

“My knowledge grew. I could feel the planet like never before. Its pains were my pains, its glory my glory. Like an earthy robe, it settled on my body as if it had always been meant for me. The dirt became my skin, the cities my heart, and the molten core my soul. The sandstorms were my anger: rushing across the land, devouring the small places before vanishing back from whence they came.”
― Nathaniel Luscombe, The Planets We Become: A Science Fantasy Novella

“The two forces drew closer; a sandstorm and a man, one with tendrils of sand and the other with a single finger. When they met, the world froze.”
― Nathaniel Luscombe, The Planets We Become: A Science Fantasy Novella

“The desert had a way of erasing the past. Could it erase mine?”
― Nathaniel Luscombe, The Planets We Become: A Science Fantasy Novella

“The ones who lived in space were not part of this covenant between the earth and sky. They didn’t see the beauty of the cosmos in the way I did. From up there, it was a vast expanse of black—a cold, heartless place.
And cold, heartless places produced cold, heartless people.”
― Nathaniel Luscombe, The Planets We Become: A Science Fantasy Novella

“When history is the only guide, what room is there for the future?”
― Nathaniel Luscombe, The Planets We Become: A Science Fantasy Novella

“This was just some backwater planet, underdeveloped and forgotten.
Yet I swore the ground hummed with life.”
― Nathaniel Luscombe, The Planets We Become: A Science Fantasy Novella

“the gods were a symbol of power and my people craved power.”
― Nathaniel Luscombe, The Planets We Become: A Science Fantasy Novella