Michael Potts

“Sad is like a big ocean, and you can’t breathe deep down. You can float on it, you can swim a little, but be careful. Grief is drowning. Grief is deep water.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Howling Dark

“Fear is the death of reason...and reason the death of fear.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

“I was having an emotion, and I hate that. I’d rather have nice safe emotions about shows on the entertainment media; having them about things real-life humans said and did just led to stupid decisions”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

“being in control of the situation was really important because otherwise it was in control of me”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect