Matt Shaw

“There are lots of different stories branching away all the time from every single thing that happens. As soon as a moment has gone, different versions of it start to be remembered and told about. And some of them carry on, and some die out, and you can't know in advance which version will last and which won't.”
― Chris Beckett, Dark Eden

“No one insists a corpse is still alive or a bird is still an egg but somehow a man is always what he used to be, and if he takes charge of his future people say he's not himself, that they don't know him anymore.”
― Personne, Traitor Comet

“You can do impulsive, reckless things completely sober. Or, well, I could, when I was young.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

“Monsters never die. They are reborn from the chaos and barbarism that is always bubbling underneath civilization . . . they must be defeated again and again, kept at bay.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters