Vincent Harris

“But to know a thing and to see it, to experience it, are as different as the moon and the finger pointing to it. Knowledge is not truth, only the apprehension of it. Experience is something else entirely.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Ashes of Man

“Tools” are the weapons of war, and the industrial and logistical means by which those weapons are constructed.

[He swivels in his chair, motioning to a picture above his desk. I lean closer and see that it’s not a picture but a framed label.]

Ingredients:

molasses from the United States

anise from Spain

licorice from France

vanilla (bourbon) from Madagascar

cinnamon from Sri Lanka

cloves from Indonesia

wintergreen from China

pimento berry oil from Jamaica

balsam oil from Peru

And that’s just for a bottle of peacetime root beer. We’re not even talking about something like a desktop PC, or a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“Love is not merely an emotion, but a vow made one to another. A vow renewed in each moment, until it hardly needs making at all.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Howling Dark

“But mercy that expects repayment is no mercy at all, nor is a friendship truly a friendship that stands on debt and gratitude.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Howling Dark