Hendrik

“The giants must live their lives amongst these rigid, unvarying right angles, entombed between these massive, solid walls. Nothing makes any attempt to mimic nature. Instead, everything is held in the iron hand of that dominating alien aesthetic.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time

“The magic of speech was ephemeral, gone the very moment it was heard. Every utterance died as soon as it was born. To live was to breathe, and to be human was to think. Therefore speech, being thinking-breath, was as mortal as the speaker. No matter how hard one tried, one could not hold on to speech.”
― Ken Liu, The Veiled Throne

“There's always a second act. Always.”
― Ken Liu, Speaking Bones

“A thousand-thousand decisions by a thousand-thousand men and women make up the links of causation, not only yours. I say this not to excuse you or to lighten the load of responsibility on your shoulders, but to affirm that to live a life true to one's nature, and to accept the consequences, seems to me all that can be demanded of us.”
― Ken Liu, Speaking Bones