Michale Windler

“     Illicit flight Alfa Bravo Charlie quickly reached a predetermined altitude and stopped dead. The passengers on board screamed the way people do on fairground rides. The shuttle hesitated momentarily and then shot forward accelerating rapidly to reach a blistering 145,222 miles per hour. They were in a Mach 22 situation. The cries from on-board could not be heard from the ground. Neither did anyone in the great metropolis of Llar witness the bright blue vapour trail the craft left behind in its wake. It was after all overcast and raining heavily.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

“What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.”
― Sir Thomas More