Mikhail

“One cannot step in the same river twice, and home is not home when you return, for you are not yourself. The man you were yesterday died yesterday, and is only a piece of the man of today, as you will be tomorrow.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Ashes of Man

“Sift the sand of every world and sort the dust of space between them, and you will find not one atom of fear, nor gram of love nor dram of hatred. Yet they are there, unseen and uncertain as the smallest quanta and just as real.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

“A single death, wrote one ancient king, is a tragedy, but a genocide can only be understood through statistics.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

“We are beasts of burden, Hadrian, we men. We struggle, and by that struggle are filled, and so define ourselves. That is the way.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Howling Dark