Bryce Giesler

“Fa’atanmaile. In Samoan, the dog that sees its reflection in a mirror. The feeling you have when you recoil at your own image because you don’t recognize it as you.”
― Juan Gómez-Jurado, White King

“Mlakundhog. In Javanese, a language spoken by seventy-five million people in Indonesia, the lightness of one who walks noiselessly on eggs.”
― Juan Gómez-Jurado, White King

“She gave me the slowest of slow claps. Empires rose and fell between each one, it was astounding. 'Bravo.”
― Steve K. Peacock, Red Peace

“The world was more fragile than most people understood. A thousand years ago, civilizations were dispersed – they were separate pockets of humanity that were mostly isolated from one another. The problems of one civilization didn’t affect the others. But it was different now. Problems at one location on the planet were felt globally, and instantaneously communicated throughout the world. Advances in communication and transportation technologies had made the situation what it was. Progress had its advantages and disadvantages.”
― Shane Stadler, Exoskeleton III: Omniscient