Vincent Harris

“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

“If I have strained you, reader, by my repeated insistence that every action matters, that every moment of every life is the moment, the axis about which all things turn, understand that I say these things because they are true. Every step, every turn, every refusal to step. Everything matters.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Ashes of Man

“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

“Evil occurs because we are insufficient to challenge it. Too weak to stop it at the gates, too blind to see it bubbling within. Were we all angels in our virtue and heroes in our capacity, we might hold all chaos at bay, might stop even the unkindling of the stars. Yet we are but men.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Ashes of Man