Chad

“The canals went gray and turgid, thickening like blood in the veins of a ripening corpse.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“to shore, a single bright light skimming over the water. She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place, the dial turned just one or two degrees.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“The seasons long for each other, like men and women, in order that they may be cured of their excesses.”
― Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

“He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven