Daisy Gunner

“In the evening sunlight the green waters turned the color of mud, and all the world was cheap as a bad painting. The ugliness, I thought. This was what Gibson meant about the ugliness of the world. But perhaps the world was perfect and it was myself who was hideous.”
― 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

“Valka smiled like a chip of broken glass,”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

“There’s no need to imagine the planet as some malevolent force seeking vengeance. It’s a rock. This is just how life is supposed to be: terrible and brief and ending in—if you’re lucky—oblivion.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate