Nick

“the past has a tendency to get boiled down to important dates when important things happened to important people. But the personal, intimate parts of people’s lives matter every bit as much as the famous, dramatic, narrative-defining ones. It’s through these little fragments of lives lived, the bits and pieces that fell between the cracks in the floorboards, that we are able to reach out through space and time, to the humans of the past. We listen to the brief flashes of their stories like blurred radio signals that cut out and pick up interference from other stations. Among the white noise, the vanished moments sucked into time, are lives lived, events experienced, emotions felt.”
― Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

“One American can really fill a room. I assume it only takes a hundred or so to really fill a country.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep

“When faced with the inexplicable, humans will find ways of explaining most horrors away.”
― Virginia Feito, Victorian Psycho

“Sometimes when people hurt for a long time, they start to think that hurting is part of who they are. And then anything that helps the hurt, even healing, feels like it’s trying to strip part of them away.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep