David Shelton

“Deep truths there may be, but none is deeper than this: Those lost to us do not return, nor the years turn back. Rather it is that we carry a piece of those lost to us within ourselves, or on our backs. Thus ghosts are real, and we never escape them.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Howling Dark

“You're a good man Albee. None of us is good lord. Edward said. It's for us to do good, despite ourselves.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods

“Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same the same something.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch

“That is not despair,” Ziller said quietly. “That is temporary annoyance, the passing irritation of foreseen disappointment. I meant nothing so trivial. I meant the sort of despair that eats your soul, that contaminates your senses so that every experience, however pleasant, becomes saturated with bile. The sort of despair that drives you to thoughts of suicide.”
― Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward