J. Michael Williams

“I lift my head from the pillow I see the frost the moon. Lowering my head I think of home. Li Po’s most famous poem. Even then: long before before the end, the bottomless yearning. Almost never home, any of us.”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

“Unfortunately, I’ve been alive a lot longer than you, and I’ve picked up some bad habits along the way. It’s not quite as easy for me to forgive people as it is for you, but I’m trying to be better.”
― Stuart Turton, The Last Murder at the End of the World

“I’d buzz the runway at ten feet and see Jasper rooted on his haunches following me with his eyes, and even at that speed I knew he was worried, and grieving that I might leave him like everything else had done, so I stopped.”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

“Why were they fighting?” “We could always find a reason,” she replies. “We had different gods or different skin, or the fight had been going on so long we’d forgotten how to stop it. Somebody had something we needed, or we thought they were planning to hurt us.”
― Stuart Turton, The Last Murder at the End of the World