Zack

“Unknowing, the fate of the old had crept up on him, and now he’d become the one who provided strategy and expected others to implement it—the one they all rightly bitched about in the pub after work. When did this happen to me?”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation Lost

“There is so much that old Earth’s religions have in common; so many identical beliefs and tenets and wisdoms. But their followers are forced apart by names, by priests who have grown decadent and greedy for physical reward. Whole peoples, whole planets who denounce one another so that a few evil men can wear robes of golden cloth.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction

“Ideological purity never survives contact with the enemy.”
― James S.A. Corey, Auberon

“I’ve heard people say, “We destroyed our world,” but I don’t agree with that. Some of us did. The rest of us were powerless. The rest of us are the ones who had to pay the biggest price.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending