David

“All of man’s other religions place him at the center of creation. But man is nothing—a fraction of the life that will walk the Earth. Earth is nothing—a tiny world that will die with its sun. The sun is one of trillions where life flowers, and wants to live, and dies. And between the suns is an endless vast darkness that dwarfs them, through which life can travel only by giving up that wanting, by losing itself. Even that darkness will eventually die. In such a universe, knowledge is the stub of a candle at dusk.” “You make it all sound so cheerful.” “It’s honest. What our religion tells us, the part that is a religion, is that the gods created life to try and make meaning. It’s ultimately hopeless, and even gods die, but the effort is real. Will always have been real, even when everything is over and no one remembers.”
― Ruthanna Emrys, The Litany of Earth

“Surely one’s childhood concerns must be hard to encounter decades later, regardless of the life fallen between.”
― Ruthanna Emrys, Winter Tide

“If magic violates the fundamental laws of nature, they clearly weren't all that fundamental.”
― Ruthanna Emrys, Winter Tide

“as though someone had decided on large and ominous as a decorating style.”
― Theodora Goss, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter