Sam Howells

“This is fucked up,” Olli sent to Kit. “There is no further up to which it might be fucked,” was his considered reply.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lords of Uncreation

“And I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my friend’s voice arises, and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“NOT UNTIL WE ARE LOST DO WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND OURSELVES. —Henry David Thoreau”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“They did nothing—other than subjecting us to complete nothingness. For, as is well known, nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story