Talon

“Prison had cut him off from the stars. When you can’t see land, and when the wind, the current, and the clouds tell you nothing, when your sextant has gone overboard and the compass won’t work, you navigate by the constellations. Now he was home.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

“We’d been led by dishonorable men.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

“Now he was back home with his mother—who still hadn’t recovered her senses and kept asking after her missing son. When poor Kresten assured her that he was standing right before her, she stuck her finger into the hole in his cheek, just as doubting Thomas had stuck his into the savior’s wounds. But unlike Thomas, she didn’t turn into a believer. Her Kresten didn’t look like this.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

“We read magazines and the glass of wine in my hand refills itself thanks to the magical properties of women gathered in a room.”
― Hilary Leichter, Temporary