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Ever since the child had learned to walk he had been his mother’s and father’s despair and delight, for there never was such a boy for wandering, for climbing up things, for getting into and out of things.


“The world we got now is one we builded with our own hands, and as far as I can see it's in a pretty sorry state. That's what comes of thinking you're the master and the world's just there to serve you.”
― The Fall of Koli
― The Fall of Koli

“Humankind was masters of the whole world once, wasn’t they? That’s what the database says. We was masters of trees, masters of tech, masters of birds and beasts and earth and sky and everything. “And look what we did, Jon. Look what a dead-god-damned mess we made of it. The world we got now is one we builded with our own hands, and as far as I can see it’s in a pretty sorry state. That’s what comes of thinking you’re the master, and the world’s just there to serve you.”
― The Fall of Koli
― The Fall of Koli

“But you can be led into believing a thing just by wanting it too much.”
― The Trials of Koli
― The Trials of Koli

“There is a game that old people play that is really no game at all. They look at how the world is now, and remember how it was, and those two things come more and more to seem like a hell and a heaven.”
― The Trials of Koli
― The Trials of Koli

“To teach what you were taught is the very heart of life, and gives you faith that life will hold.”
― The Trials of Koli
― The Trials of Koli

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