R. Martijn

“How can we ever hope to prevail against such demons, I ask you?” “By being demons ourselves, sire,” I said.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Ashes of Man

“Your friends loved you, as I do—as your Valka does. That is why they saved you. And that love, I told you, is a mighty thing!”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Kingdoms of Death

“We have need of heroes, however broken, however terrible, however insufficient they may be. And we have need of more than one hero, for heroes do break, you know.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Ashes of Man

“If I have strained you, reader, by my repeated insistence that every action matters, that every moment of every life is the moment, the axis about which all things turn, understand that I say these things because they are true. Every step, every turn, every refusal to step. Everything matters.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Ashes of Man