Peter

“So that was love, then? Nhika thought. The things we protect and the people we can’t live without?”
― Vanessa Le, The Last Bloodcarver

“It has always been a haven for outsiders: people who find themselves unsuited to life anywhere else. But it is also known for being a place where people of great differences—the Mark of Iron, the Mark of the Vine—can be reconciled.”
― S.E. Grove, The Crimson Skew

“The rise of the English novel in the eighteenth century is inseparable from the rise of Calvinism and capitalism, which formed an unholy alliance to spread a gospel of industry and productivity (after chattel slavery and stolen land in the Americas made England rich and created a glut of resources). Calvinism focused on individual salvation, and a vision of “stewardship” in which every person needed to work hard to improve their situation on earth—which dovetailed nicely with capitalism’s new emphasis on relentless production.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, Lessons in Magic and Disaster

“Family’s just whoever is left once your friends have all fucked off.” —AVON HARRISON JR., ‘ASPOLETH”
― Benjamin Liar, The Failures