Alex Wells

“A shiver passed through Mag. She realized, then, that no one had used that word before, not out loud. They’d talked about work stoppage, about real work for real pay, about all coming down sick at once. But no one had ever said strike, a word from the depths of history passed down by the miners and completely absent from the curriculum in the company-run school. The word seemed so archaic, so impossible, and at the same time heavy with power. Clarence had written the word in his proposal to the crew leaders in the other towns, but even then, no one had said it out loud, like it was some kind of black magic that couldn’t be taken back once spoken.”
― Alex Wells, Blood Binds the Pack

“It had been a bad practice in some governments a few centuries ago to take people directly out of the corporate hierarchies and place them in high civil posts. They were supposedly long past doing that.”
― Alex Wells, Blood Binds the Pack