Vincent Harris

“Good rulers—in my experience—listen more than they speak. It had been so with Raine Smythe, and indeed with my father, who for all his callousness ran his prefecture with the ruthless efficiency of a thinking machine.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Kingdoms of Death

“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

“A wise man once told me that flesh was the cheapest resource in the human universe and that life spends more easily than gold. I laughed when I heard that and denied him. I was a fool to do so. How little I knew. The arch that led in”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

“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