Simon Kael > Quotes

“The amber eyes were level and unhurried, carrying the patience of someone who had learned early that stillness was not the absence of feeling but its most effective disguise.”
― Simon Kael, The Hollow Season

“The rain came down at a diagonal. The particular diagonal it came down when the wind off the river had opinions.”
― Simon Kael, The Hollow Season

“He had a scar on his left eyebrow, thin and pale, the width of a sentence someone had started and thought better of.”
― Simon Kael, The Hollow Season

“Three ribs — he heard them before he processed them, a sound like green wood snapping, and then the white-hot arithmetic of it tried to empty his lungs entirely — and he kept moving because he was already committed and the commitment was the only thing that gave the sacrifice any meaning.”
― Simon Kael, The Hollow Season

“On the fire escape the rain hit the grating in a sound like a conversation conducted entirely in consonants.”
― Simon Kael, The Hollow Season