Lindsay Kyle

“Simple accident: a zombie-crewed containership from Southern Kath wrecked in a storm. The containership had been hired to transport a horror from beyond the stars, but the horror broke free and twisted a few hundred miles of Kathic coastline into unearthly geometries before the Coast Guard caught it. Resulting market fluctuations broke the Great Squid. Steve, the priest responsible, was promoted after the event, for exceptional skill managing a crisis,”
― Max Gladstone, Full Fathom Five

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs.”
― Imogen Binnie, Nevada

“I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!”
― Jack Vance, Tales of the Dying Earth