Comfort Lies Quotes

“This is why she hates Alabaster: not because he is more powerful, not even because he is crazy, but because he refuses to allow her any of the polite fictions and unspoken truths that have kept her comfortable, and safe, for years.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“They say older folks need less sleep, so I must not be old yet.”
― Paul Carlson, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 12, December 2012