Xing

“He saw life, in that instant, as a series of borrowings. You slopped together a brain from atomic mud, your cells clustered together and built you a frame, and you grew layers of flesh and draped it over your bones. You took vibrations from the air and made a voice; you drew light through your eyes and the world appeared like projector thrusting an image onto a dark screen. You learned rules, and your feelings shaped themselves into something beyond your control, a weapon you had to master if you had hoped to destroy anything specific.”
― J.A. Rock, The Grand Ballast

“Fear isn’t a very useful emotion for a warrior. Rage is better.”
― Kirby Crow, The King of Forever

“And maybe that’s all love ever was—just something you hung over loneliness, like a photograph put up just to cover a square of faded paint on a wall.”
― J.A. Rock, The Grand Ballast

“He was a wraith of the factories, skinny and tall, with a wobbling gait that broadcast his deformed legs.”
― Kirby Crow, Hammer and Bone