Matt Shaw

“Maybe I can be what someone good believes I am. Maybe that's what faith is.”
― Sterling Watson, Night Letter

“They were happy because they didn't have enough imagination to look ahead, he thought, and anyone who tried to tell them there were dangers was by definition an enemy of the community.”
― Kate Wilhelm, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

“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

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