Bryan Graham

“The past had left its mark in other ways. Black hair had faded to grey. Furrows of merriment and disappointment ran deeper than ever, her eyes haunted by private resentment.”
― Matthew Ward, Legacy of Ash

“According to Sebastian, ideas have run away with the world. He hates chain stores and fast-food restaurants, mass-produced items and fashionable clothes—any instance of something which is repeated across the world regardless of local context. These things deny the uniqueness of each moment and each person. They function as if we were all printed out of plastic, like egg boxes, and they try to make us function the same way. They are the intrusion of perfection into our grubby, smelly, sweaty living place.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World