Omar Hadidi

“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

“One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness… Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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

“There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns