Omar Hadidi

“Rough Music...
"No one controls the music, Mr. Pretty - you know that. It just turns up when people have had enough. No one knows where it starts. People look around, and catch on another's eye, and give each other a little nod, and other people see that. Other people catch their eye and so, very slowly, the music starts and somebody picks up a spoon and bangs it on a plate, and then somebody else bangs a jug on the table and boots starts to stamp on the floor, louder and louder. It is the sound of anger, it is the sound of people who have had enough. Do you want to face the music?”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“perhaps we hurt for the lost opportunities, for the conversation that would have released all the unspoken words, for the way it should have been. “Where”
― Mark Lawrence, The Wheel of Osheim

“Pride lets a man be skewered on the point of other people’s expectations.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Wheel of Osheim

“A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World