Amir Youssef

“and the past, as Faulkner said, was never dead; it wasn’t even the past. It always returned and forced you to confront it.”
― Baoshu, The Redemption of Time

“It has all gone so fast, Duke. Like a dream. How is it the days crawl by and yet the years fly?”
― Lawrence Sanders, The Anderson Tapes

“just as the world of before had presidents who came and went. Meanwhile, it was the men in the shadows who wielded the true power, those whose terms had no limits. That this silo operated by the same deceit should not be surprising; it was the only way such men knew how to run anything.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus

“With enough revolutions and elections, enough transfers of power, eventually a madman would take the reins. It was inevitable.”
― Hugh Howey, The Silo Saga Omnibus