Adrian Torres

“All I wanted to do was watch media and not exist.”
― Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry

“I wadded my fist in the pockets of my new linen trousers. “I’m a tool.”

Chef’s laugh wasn’t light like a bell or deep like an echoing well. It was the groan of a grave, rattled and dying in its disuse and disgust. She strode out into the sun and raised her nose over the palace cacti gardens. “We’re all tools, stage. The only meaningful choice in life is to determine what tool we become. I chose to be a chef’s tool, a knife. If I teach you anything, let it be this: be a knife. The rest are worthless.”
― Ryan Rose, Seven Recipes for Revolution: What We Eat, Book 1

“Loss is hard, but loss without the chance to say goodbye is worse.”
― Hazel Zorn, Reef Mind

“The first time I saw one flying up the Academy’s central stair, I almost screamed. Who thought it was a good idea to let birds inside a tower?”
― Ryan Rose, Seven Recipes for Revolution: What We Eat, Book 1