Alexis Elspeth

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“And speaking of Escher, it’s worth recording this for posterity: the artists were right, literally right, all along. Beneath what we used to call ‘reality’ there was always an Escheresque, a Boschian, a Munchian fact—a scuttling Guernicopia of horrors just waiting to be discovered once the civilizational rock was finally overturned.”
― Adrian Barnes, Nod

“This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and see that something's missing, but there's no way to know what it was.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“You meet a man, you know him. You meet a woman, she knows you.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son