The Mortality Experiment Quotes

“The worlds need your words. The stars need your stories.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“When revenge is done, what will remain of you?”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“If you won’t find truth, truth will find you. When it does, it will be neither gentle nor kind, and you will regret the day you laughed at destiny.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“Memories flake like petals in the wind, burned to crisps in conquest’s wake, villages in ruins, roses trampled by corpses. Mirrors make fools of us all.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“I have that look in my eyes, same as she did—the frantic, wild, hazel fear of one who has seen hell and asked for seconds.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“I don’t care if you agree, but one day, even if you don’t believe what I believe, I hope you will believe in me.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“I’d like to travel, to see strange worlds and live strange lives, full of strange tomorrows. And I’d like to live this life…with you.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“Some books burn.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“Though I built a beautiful tomorrow, yesterday came crashing down.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“Nothing works out how we want, but everything works out for the best.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“Fortune never smiles twice.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“Breathe suffering into story. Find the starving parts of your soul, the slivers that ache for words, and lend those shadows voice.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“Grief is an odd curse. You never feel what you think you’re supposed to feel—it’s either too much or too little. If I cry too much, she’d want me to be happy. If I cry too little, she’d think I didn’t care.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“She was a force. Not always a good one, but a strong one.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“This is the Ward. Save your lawsuits for lawful places.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“Time breaks all vows.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“Life is always the excuse for not living.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“We are in deep space, where rules don’t apply, where laws of physics turn toward each other and laugh, then cackle, then spit in our eyes.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“I’d rather fall together than rise alone.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“Dreams aren’t soft, tender pups wrapped in blankets against the cold. No, dreams are hungry, feral wolves who take the cold as a challenge. They walk through ice, because they know ice ends. Blizzards stop. Winter doesn’t last forever. There is a refuge, even if you can’t see it through the storm.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“The past is clingy, a needy spouse, intent on reunion or destruction, in marriage or divorce of destiny’s vow.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“No rebellions in heaven. No revolutions, either.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“What we do today counts more than yesterday, so today, I change.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“Even if our stake in the ground is a sword in a neck, we swear loyalty to the comfort of familiarity’s throne.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“I hate joy. There’s no substance, no longevity. Better to wallow in misery’s predictable infinity than crest the sea only to forget how to swim.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“I won’t be the reason you fall.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“Some things are better left buried.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“They’re wicked ordinary, corporate, and careful, climbing a ladder that never moves. I want to learn how to fly upside down.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel

“Earth is not lost. It’s worse. It’s forgotten.”
― Halo Scot, The Mortality Experiment: A Grimdark Science-Fiction Novel