Natalie S.

“A reliable device built to last a lifetime, as all computers were.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“So I sat in the little room and looked at his face. He had what James would later call “baby dinosaur features.” The broad brow, wide nose, heavy-lidded eyes all came together and made you think of a brachiosaurus lazily eating leaves out of a tree.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“You think he belonged to the type who can’t live with themselves any more.’ ‘What a good description! Yes. The kind who want something badly, and then discover that the price they have paid for it is too high.’ ‘So you don’t think he was an out-and-out villain?’ ‘No; oh, no. Villains don’t suffer, and that face is full of the most dreadful pain.”
― Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time