R.S.A. Garcia > Quotes

“Death is the breath between one Life and the Next.
—Message of the Will
Book of the Seven Holies
Ancient Dak Scripture”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Lex Talionis

“He wanted to be inside, away from the possibility of social contact. He was not entirely comfortable out here. Getting too close to the everyday dance of the world overloaded his acute senses in a way that he could not explain to anyone. So he did not try. He simply kept to himself and lived his life in a way that would ease his discomfort as much as possible. He no longer cared what others thought of his ways; the few friends he had understood him. Everything else was unimportant. Except his job. The one thing he could excel at just by being himself.”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Lex Talionis

“I like the spill of blood, of gold, of rich cloths and glittering jewels. They are bright and alive in an otherwise drab world. I stab and shoot and laugh and fuck and feel nothing but euphoria.

I have no fears and no hopes. No needs but him.

- Fire in His Eyes, Blood on His Teeth”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Devil's Ways

“The web disappeared into the shadows, finer than hair and twisted into ropes of all sizes, some thick as her finger. Every strand grew from the furred belly of the spider.

“Anchorite Nadine,” it would whisper in the voice of her long-dead sister. “Anchorite Nadine. Have you anything interesting to report?”

- The Anchorite Wakes, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143, August 2018

“They will believe the truth shall set them free.
They will be wrong.
Sometimes, there is no stronger cage.
—Wisdom: The Fifth of the Seven Holies
Ancient Dak Scripture”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Lex Talionis

“Louisa stares at Sister Nadine over her shoulder as her mother takes her hand and walks away. Her gaze is strange. Knowing. There is the slightest glow to her; a spark centered above her head. Nadine cannot quite see its shape, but she knows it is important. New.

- The Anchorite Wakes, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143, August 2018

“Violence begets violence and every Harvest delivers more death to the Harvested.

- The Anchorite Wakes, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143, August 2018

“When the moon rises above us and I see its glowing,
colour-shifting beauty – see its true splendour for the
first time between swaying palm leaves – I am distracted.

It’s then that he reaches down and pulls my heart
from my chest.

- Fire in His Eyes, Blood on His Teeth”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Devil's Ways