Maynard Eckstrom

“But it wasn't long before the old familiar discontent started creeping up on me. I suppose it was always there, somewhere in the background. All I've done, my whole life, is keep it temporarily at bay.”
― Sara Gruen, Flying Changes

“You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
― Scott Westerfeld

“For others, the lure of a world where they fit is too great to escape, and they will spend the rest of their lives rattling at windows and peering at locks, trying to find the way home.”
― Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky

“That man’s asshole must be tight enough right now to bend space.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War