Daisy Gunner

“No matter how great and glorious the making, time will unmake it. No matter how strong the word, strong the thought, strong the law, all must return to chaos.’ Skifr jerked her head back and sent spit spinning high into the air, arcing neatly down and spattering on rusted metal. ‘King Uthil says steel is the answer. I say his sight is short. Dust is the last answer to every question, now and always.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a War

“There are moments, instants that divide. Time fractures about them so that there is a time after . . . and so that all that was before is a kind of dream.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

“In politically tense times, differences – rather than similarities – can easily be brought into sharp focus. And such differences can be exploited by any politician who ultimately cares more about their own power, or indeed some abstract idea of nationhood, than about the lives of ordinary people and the ordinary communities that they govern.”
― Alice Roberts, Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

“There was a hollow, brittle quality to my words, like a pane of safety glass cracked by a bullet, its pieces held together only because the shards had fallen against one another, ready to topple at the slightest disturbance.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence