Thomas Keely

“The equations that govern the universe don’t care about “now”. You can ask them questions about this time or that time, but nowhere in the elegance of their mathematics is there any such thing as “now”. The idea of one specific moment, one universal “now” racing along at sixty minutes an hour, slicing through the seconds, spitting the past out behind it and throwing itself into the future . . . that’s just an artefact of consciousness, something entirely of our own making that the cosmos has no use for.”
― Mark Lawrence, One Word Kill

“It’s always a shock, when you’ve been hit by some calamity, to see the world go about its business with perfect indifference.”
― Mark Lawrence, One Word Kill

“The smartest and best know they can do the job better than everyone else, so they micromanage everything. They spread themselves too thin and fail where a lesser man might have succeeded.”
― B.V. Larson, Empire

“My boy, most people are good souls. They’re just trying to get by from day to day and live in peace. But there’s some people out there who just don’t give a damn. They will kill you just because they don’t like the way you look. If you have something they like, they will take it from you if they can. They are people who want power and money and that’s all they care about. They will enslave your family, occupy your home. Those are the people who make wars, not the poor slobs like you and me who just want live a life. People got to stop blaming mankind for wars. It’s the ones who got no conscience. They’re the war mongers. Just ask those poor bastards in Nazi occupied France. They’ll explain it to you.”
― E.R. Mason, Demon's Well