Dolorous Haze

“I wondered about the masterminds who were directing all the mayhem. Did they really hope to survive? Or was I missing the point? Did they intend, instead, to incinerate themselves and all of us with them? Like mummified pharaohs and their entombed slaves. Why do that? Maybe just to prove that they owned the world. After all, you don’t own something unless you can destroy it.”
― Stepan Chapman, The Troika

“It has been said that heresy is the revenge of a forgotten truth.”
― R.A. Lafferty, Fourth Mansions

“The sun began its dip behind the horizon and the walls sunk to augmented beige, and he could feel his body in the walls forty years later.”
― B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis

“We walk in deception and must build the most honest world we know.”
― Nick Harkaway, Gnomon