Chris

“The patient sculptor that was nature turned the region into an uninhabited metropolis of monumental architecture: mountainous arches as breathtaking as rainbows, precipitous bridges sized for city-ships, buttes and spires whose profiles brought to mind the ancient monsters at the end of the Fifth Age of Mankind, lofty hoodoos that rose like the columns of ruined temples erected by larger-than-life heroes for unimaginable gods.”
― Ken Liu, Speaking Bones

“Seditious thought: There would be nothing too terrible about dying out here, about becoming part of all of this.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Authority

“Yet it was the fate of all mortals to end in dust. Whether it was the pédiato savaga or a mound of earth, every journey concluded in the disintegration of the flesh and the fading of our memories in the minds of those whom we touched.”
― Ken Liu, Speaking Bones