The pieces fell into place for Skirata and he let himself be shocked anyway. War was one thing. Weird science was another issue entirely.
“He thinks writing is also a kind of war, one you fight with yourself. The story is what you carry and every time you add to it, it gets heavier.”
― Billy Summers
― Billy Summers
“The darkness pulls back, startled, shocked, angry. Pulls back, losing its appetite at being so rudely interrupted as it prepared to feed.”
― The Stories of Ray Bradbury
― The Stories of Ray Bradbury
“The pattern is fear leading to a word of consolation leading to a revelation.”
― The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
― The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
“It is curious—curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”
― The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
― The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
“When I thought of my mother, it was always as a presence - a role, almost - and it was strange to be faced with a truth that should have been obvious, that she had been someone with her own dreams and aspirations, who had felt the same as I had, and who had once had a life that existed entirely outside of her relationship to me.”
― The Shadows
― The Shadows
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