Alex Milidrag

“There were five of them, and four had traded their eyes for green-gold wasps that curled into their sockets and compounded their vision. Claws graced their hands like sharp commas. Scales at their throats burned red when they breathed. One wing sighed bellows-like out of the naked back of the shortest, the one who still had slate-gray human eyes. After a while, I'd wished he had wasps instead.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“Sometimes you don't know you're going to throw a grenade until you've already pulled the pin.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“There is, in the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in us, deeper than our blood.

Violence is the language of destruction, flesh so often the subject, fragile, easy to break beyond repair, precious; what else would be burn to make the world take note?”
― Mark Lawrence

“When have we ever believed that the world wasn’t ending?”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility