James Ison

“Well, it looks like you were dragged face first through the makeup aisle at the dollar store,”
― Matt Dinniman, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

“The witch smiled in a fashion that was hard to read, having all the character of affection but coming from a face designed for nothing but malice.”
― Alexis Hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter

“It changed the way they spoke. Constantly they trailed off in the middle of sentences. They could not utter even common phrases and aphorisms without pausing to wonder where those words came from. Such interrogations infiltrated all their conversations, became the default way they made sense of each other and everything else.* They could no longer look at the world and not see stories, histories, layered everywhere like centuries’ worth of sediment.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“At the smallest levels, the universe operates according to very different rules from those of the sensual world. There are contradictions and impossibilities, paradoxes and strangenesses, a Lewis Carroll logic; yet this is the most accurate description of how reality works.”
― Ian McDonald, Time Was