Andre

“This is the way they revere the dead. They remember what they offered the world and what everybody else has to do to fill the gap. There are no prayers here, no thoughts of an afterlife. The reward for a good life is the living of it.”
― Stuart Turton, The Last Murder at the End of the World

“I heard Ghrelin’s voice continue beside me, whispering, “So I wonder
now. I wonder—what does that make us?”
“I…I beg pardon, sir?” I asked.
I turned and saw him smiling sadly at me through the glass of his helm.
“What does it mean,” he said, “when the line that once connected us to the
inscrutable and ineffable instead coils about, forms a great loop—and then
comes back to us?”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, A Drop of Corruption

“There are some things you just can’t scrape off your shoe, no matter how hard you try.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, City of Last Chances

“The greatest privilege of power is being able to overlook that you’re even wielding it.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay