Richard Gerlach

“We call darkness our friend, but when the elders tell us stories of the Garden, they talk of the holy, unending light that was there. How did shadows become our only dwelling?”
― Tad Williams, The Heart of What Was Lost

“We survive. But when survival is the only goal, what do the survivors become? This”
― Tad Williams, The Heart of What Was Lost

“Our Grandfathers which art in chaos, Fallow be thy names. Thy kingdom scour, Thy will devour the earth, and hell, and heaven.’ Here at the end of everything, this is all the comfort or reassurance I have left to offer anyone. May it prove to be enough for my brother, and for me.”
― Matt Cardin, DIVINATIONS OF THE DEEP

“That boy. That stupid little foolish boy took their money, and he ran. Back to Zephyr, back to the clean hills, back where he could think. And then that book came out, with the boy’s name on it, and he saw that cover and knew he had taken his child and he had dressed that beautiful child up like a prostitute and now only people who craved ugliness wanted her. They wanted to wallow in her, and use her up and throw her away because she was only one of a hundred thousand and she was crippled. And that boy … that boy had done it to her. That evil, greedy boy.” His”
― Robert McCammon, Boy's Life